Dvory nad Žitavou (Hungarian: Udvard) is a municipality and village in the Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia.

It mentions the Latin name of the municipality - Villa Hudvordensium super aquam Sitou - which means the settlement of masters (peasants) above the river Žitava.

The place now known as Udvard was generated from merging 4 settlements Hudvord, Huba, Pazman and Vadkert.

Later in 1256 another German knight Sebret a Sefrid de Medek got the right of collecting duty on the Žitava river.

1309 is a very important date because a synod with the Estergomian archbishop as leader took place in the royal chateau on the top of Saint-Martin hillock.

They prescribed, beside the compulsory morning and afternoon bell-ringing, the evening runging simultaneously with the Angelus prayer.

Into Udvard-district, which expanded as far as rivers Danube and Váh flowed, and included 23 settlements and 11 manors.

When World War I ended, after the Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed and after the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Udvard became part of the newly established Czechoslovakia.

It is the home of Ovocinárske družstvo OVD Dvory nad Žitavou, a fruit orchard.