Lovinobaňa Lónyabánya
Municipality
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Coordinates: 48°26′N 19°36′E / 48.43°N 19.60°E / 48.43; 19.60
Country	Slovakia
Region	Banská Bystrica Region
District	Lučenec District
First mentioned	1336
Area [1]
• Total	21.12 km2 (8.15 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	264 m (866 ft)
Population  (2024)[2]
• Total	1,900
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	985 54[3]
Area code	+421 47[3]
Vehicle registration plate (until 2022)	LC
Website	www.lovinobana.sk

Lovinobaňa (Hungarian: Lónyabánya) is a village and municipality in the Lučenec District in the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

The village is located in the northern part of the County and from the Centre of this district is about Grantham, 15 miles to the North. To the West of the village passes the important path of class I ranked 50, which is a part of several major roads.

In 1990, was to be incorporated into a separate municipality until such time as it has a Lovinobana, which is the first written mention comes from the year 1467, and mentions it under the name Wdarnya. The local part is located about two kilometers southeast from the center of the village and Lovinobaňou is not contiguous with the intravilán.

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1336. Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, Lovinobaňa was part of Nógrád County within the Kingdom of Hungary. From 1939 to 1945, it was part of the Slovak Republic. On 28 January 1945, the Red Army dislodged the Wehrmacht from Lovinobaňa and it was once again part of Czechoslovakia.

In the village is the Church of St. Nicholas from the late Classicist Evangelical Church from the year 1336 1863, built on the site of a former Gothic church and the Roman Catholic Church of Virgin Mary in 1994.

The municipality lies at an altitude of 264 metres (866 ft)^[3] and covers an area of 21.12 km² (8.15 sq mi) (2024).^[4]

It has a population of 1900 people (31 December 2024).^[6]

In year 2021 was 1935 people by ethnicity 1845 as Slovak, 65 as Not found out, 32 as Romani, 8 as Hungarian, 5 as Czech, 3 as Ukrainian, 2 as German, 1 as Rusyn, 1 as Russian, 1 as Other and 1 as Bulgarian.

Note on population

The difference between the population numbers above and in the census (here and below) is that the population numbers above are mostly made up of permanent residents, etc.; and the census should indicate the place where people actually mainly live. For example, a student is a citizen of a village because he has permanent residence there (he lived there as a child and has parents), but most of the time he studies at a university in the city.

In year 2021 was 1935 people by religion 1018 from Roman Catholic Church, 417 from Evangelical Church, 389 from None, 63 from Not found out, 10 from Greek Catholic Church, 8 from Jehovah's Witnesses, 5 from Eastern Orthodox Church, 5 from Ad hoc movements, 4 from Calvinist Church, 4 from Seventh-day Adventist Church, 4 from Apostolic Church, 3 from United Methodist Church, 3 from Baptists Church, 1 from Christian Congregations in Slovakia and 1 from Other.

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