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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Ilava
| other_name              = 
| settlement_type         = [[List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia|Municipality]]
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| image_skyline           = Ilava.jpg
| image_caption           = 
| image_flag              = Ilava-ilava-flag.svg
| image_shield            = Coat of Arms of Ilava.svg
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| subdivision_type        = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name        = {{SVK}}
| subdivision_type1       = [[Regions of Slovakia|Region]]
| subdivision_name1       = {{flag|Trenčín Region}}
| subdivision_type2       = [[Districts of Slovakia|District]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Ilava District]]
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| pushpin_map             = Slovakia Trenčín Region#Slovakia
| pushpin_relief          = 1
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location of Ilava in the [[Trenčín Region]]##Location of Ilava in [[Slovakia]]
| coordinates             = {{coord|48.99|N|18.23|E|region:SK|display=inline,title}}
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| leader_title            = Mayor
| leader_name             = Viktor Wiedermann
| leader_party            = 
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| established_title       = First mentioned
| established_date        = 1229
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| area_footnotes          = <ref name="area">{{Cite web |url=http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_DEM/om7014rr/v_om7014rr_00_00_00_sk |title=Hustota obyvateľstva - obce [om7014rr_ukaz: Rozloha (Štvorcový meter)] |language=sk |date=2022-03-31 |website=www.statistics.sk |publisher= Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|access-date=2022-03-31}}</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 24.30
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| elevation_footnotes     = <ref name="base_info">{{Cite web |url=http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_SK_WIN/om5001rr/v_om5001rr_00_00_00_sk |title=Základná charakteristika |language=sk |date=2015-04-17 |website=www.statistics.sk |publisher= Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|access-date=2022-03-31}}</ref>
| elevation_m             = 313
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| population_as_of        = {{abbr|2021|Population: 2021-12-31. Population density & Total area: 2021-06-30/-07-01. Elevation, Postal code & Area code (last updated): 2015-04-17.}}
| population_footnotes    = <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://datacube.statistics.sk/#!/view/sk/VBD_DEM/om7101rr/v_om7101rr_00_00_00_sk |title=Počet obyvateľov podľa pohlavia - obce (ročne) |language=sk |date=2022-03-31 |website=www.statistics.sk |publisher= Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|access-date=2022-03-31}}</ref>
| population_total        = 5563
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| timezone1               = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset1             = +1
| timezone1_DST           = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset1_DST         = +2
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| postal_code_type        = Postal code
| postal_code             = 190 1<ref name="base_info"/>
| area_code               = +421 42<ref name="base_info"/>
| blank_name              = [[Slovak car registration plates|Car plate]]
| blank_info              = IL
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| website                 = {{URL|https://www.ilava.sk/}}
}}

'''Ilava''' ({{langx|de|Illau}}, {{langx|hu|Illava}}) is a town in the [[Trenčín Region]], northwestern [[Slovakia]].

==Name==
The name is of uncertain origin. The historic medieval names were ''Lewe'', ''Lewa'' (the same historic name as [[Levice]]), ''Lewa de cidca fluviom Vag'', later ''Ilava''.<ref name="about">{{cite web |url=http://www.ilava.sk/zakladne-informacie/o-meste |title=O menste |trans-title=About the town |website=Mesto Ilava - informačný server |publisher=Mestský úrad Ilava |access-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721131931/http://www.ilava.sk/zakladne-informacie/o-meste |url-status=dead }}</ref> The form ''Illava'' is known from the 19th century and was used after the [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]].<ref name="about"/>

==Demographics==
{{historical population|1970|4596|1980|5188|1991|5531|2001|5411|2011|5391|2021|5572|align=right|cols=1|source=Censuses<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistical lexikon of municipalities 1970-2011|url=https://slovak.statistics.sk/wps/wcm/connect/cd33d897-7314-41d0-a12b-a95e537d7a39/Statisticky_lexikon_obci_Slovenskej_republiky_2011.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy&CVID=kRHTpsy|language=sk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Census 2021 - Population - Basic results|url=https://www.scitanie.sk/obyvatelia/zakladne-vysledky/pocet-obyvatelov/|publisher=Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic|date=2021-01-01}}</ref>}}According to the 2001 [[census]], the town had 5,441 inhabitants. 98.1% of inhabitants were [[Slovaks]], 0.9% [[Czech people|Czechs]] and 0.1% [[Romani people|Roma]] and [[Hungarian people|Hungarians]].<ref name="statistics">{{cite web|title=Municipal Statistics |publisher=Statistical Office of the Slovak republic |url=http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html |access-date=2007-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027094149/http://www.statistics.sk/mosmis/eng/run.html |archive-date=2007-10-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The religious makeup was 87.2% [[Roman Catholics]], 7.9% people with no religious affiliation, and 1.2% [[Lutherans]].<ref name="statistics"/>

==Notable people==
* [[Ivan Baranka]] (born 1985), ice hockey player
* [[Mária Bieliková]] (born 1966), computer scientist
* [[Hana Burzalová]] (born 2000), [[racewalker]]
* [[Radoslav Ďuriš]] (born 1974), wheelchair curler
* [[Artur Gajdoš]] (born 2004), association footballer
* [[Katrina Grey]] (born 1991), actress
* [[Marcel Hossa]] (born 1981), ice hockey player
* [[Tomáš Kopecký]] (born 1982), ice hockey player, two-time [[Stanley Cup]] Champion
* [[Marek Kvapil]] (born 1985), ice hockey player
* [[Richard Pavlikovský]] (born 1975), ice hockey player
* [[Natália Prekopová]] (born 1989), biathlete
* [[Ľubomír Šatka]] (born 1995), association footballer
* [[Tomáš Tatar]] (born 1990), ice hockey player
* [[Pavel Traubner]] (1941–2024), neurologist

==Twin towns — sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovakia}}

Ilava is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Úvodná strana|url=https://www.ilava.sk/|website=ilava.sk|publisher=Ilava|language=sk|access-date=2019-09-08}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Győr]], Hungary
*{{flagicon|CZE}} [[Klimkovice]], Czech Republic
*{{flagicon|POL}} [[Mikołów]], Poland

==See also==
* [[List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.ilava.sk  Official page]
*[http://www.cisarik.com/0_Ilava_Ilava_TC_Trencsen_Trencin.html'''Surnames''' of living people in Ilava]
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