The area around Pitvaros has been inhabited since the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, although the village's name does not appear in writing until the late Middle Ages.

Pitvaros and the surrounding settlements were razed during a Turkish invasion in 1552, and for the next 250 years, the region was uninhabited.

The area was repopulated in 1816 when 175 Lutheran Slovak families were settled into the region from Nagylak.

The new inhabitants built simple huts in a scattered fashion, until the Habsburgs sent city planners who laid out streets in a grid, and had the villagers rebuild their homes in organized lots.

Following mass deportations of Hungarians out of Czechoslovakia, the Czechoslovak–Hungarian population exchange program facilitated the resettlement of around two-thirds of the Slovak villagers into Slovakia.