| Divina | |
| Official Name: | Obec Divina |
| Other Name: | Nagy Divina, Gross Divina |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovakia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Žilina |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Žilina |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovakia |
| Established Date: | 1325 |
| Parts: | Lúky village (from 1913) and several smaller settlements: Bálovce, Vršek and others. |
| Leader Title: | starosta |
| Leader Name: | Martin Fronc, Independent |
| Area Total Km2: | 21.88[1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 8.45 |
| Elevation M: | 410[2] |
| Elevation Ft: | 1,350 |
| Population Total: | 2445[3] |
| Population Density Km2: | 111.65[4] |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 43.11 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 013 31 |
| Area Code: | +421 41 |
| Blank Name: | Car plate |
| Blank Info: | ZA |
| Website: | http://www.divina.sk/ |
Divina (Hungarian: Nagydivény) is a village and municipality in Žilina District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.
In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1325.
The municipality lies at an altitude between 355 – 910 metres (center of the village 550 meters) and covers an area of 21.881 km2. It has a population of about 2384 people.
Late baroque church, built between 1773 and 1779 by John Nepomuk Szunyogh. The church is registered in the Central List of the Slovak Memorial Fund under the number 1333/1.[5]
The Statue of St. John of Nepomuk is registered in the Central List of the Slovak Memorial Fund under the number 1334/2. It is a sandstone sculpture from 1796 standing on a stone base. The project of restoration of St. John of Nepomuk statue was started in 2016, was completed in June 2017. Partners, who were addressed to cooperate have either some connection to St. John of Nepomuk or to Slovakia and was from: Germany, Cambodia, Bulgaria, Bavaria, Vatican and Czech Republic. The project was carried out under auspices of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Slovakia.[6] [7] Exceptional realization of the restoration project of the statie has gained a Honorable recognition by Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Ľubica Laššáková on the 13th edition of the competition Phoenix – National Cultural Monument of the Year 2017.[8]
Meteorit from Divina (official name Gross-Divina) fell into the center of the village on July 24, 1837.[9] From the mineralogical point of view it is a chondrite. The weight was 10.5 kg. The architect used a corten steel for the construction. The memorial contains a precise 3D copy of the meteorite. The original is in the Hungarian Natural History Museum as well as the Natural History Museum Vienna.
The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Štátny archív v Žiline so sídlom v Bytči".[11]