Bátonyterenye is a town in Nógrád County, Hungary, under the Mátra mountain range, beside of the Zagyva river.

The northern town (Kisterenye) is first mentioned in 1280 as Thyrina, then in 1381 as Egihazas and in 1413 as Vásáros Therennye.

In the Middle Ages, the population of the villages lived from agriculture, and the land was the common property of the local nobility.

The jobs that appeared as a result of coal mining increased immigration from the surrounding settlements and from the direction of the Great Hungarian Plain.

Half of the population lived from te mining, and the settlement's secondary school was built in the 1950s.

In 1984, Kisterenye, Maconka, Nagybátony and Szúpatak were officially united and Bátonyterenye was created.

After the collectivization, the Mátra Cooperative became the dominant force in agriculture, which still operates today.

[1] The town is the part of the Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark[2] with the Gyürky-Solymosy castle[3] and with the water storage of Maconka.

Two other inner area exist 6.6 and 6.9 km far from the town center, outside of the city: Szúpatak and Szorospatak with 52 and 32 people.