The oldest known settlement in Kysuce is the city Kysucké Nové Mesto, which is located on an important trade route through the region.
This is evidenced by, for example, the findings of mammoths teeth and bones of a rhinosaurs, a fraction of patented clawed blade from Nezbudska Lúčka.
From there we have a hammer and blade from obsidian and various other fragments which can document settlement of Kysuce in Neolit, but also other findings from earlier periods.
The oldest direct written record of Kysuce is Belos deed from 1244 which was for Bohumír, the son of Sebeslav; "... terram quandam in confinio Polonia...
[clarification needed] This borders the property between the rivers Kysuca, Divinka and Vranie, around the same as the territory of the later Budatín estate.
From historical documents, only data from the census of papal tithes (1332–1337), when the local pastor, Peter, paid tax 6 pennies and his rectory was the only one in the region, can be assigned.
In the deed from 1244 Béla IV of Hungary gives Bohumír, the son of Sebeslav, territory west to Kysuce until the Polish borders on the north and river Vranie in the south.
The core of this region was in 1254 town Jačatín, which was important as a toll station in 1321 and as a settlement growing into a city in 1325 – nowadays Kysucké Nové mesto.
First mention of Čadca is located in a dispute over Hungary-Silesian border in 1565, which shows that as more permanent settlement started to develop only recently, got a name from a river Čadčianka (Čadečka).
The landowners Budatín estate in 1572 was referred to as "Wes Cziatcza" that had Wallachian mayoralty, 2 peasant and one cotter homestead.
Already in the 1580s several Wallachian sheep farms chorvarky concentrated in places Ochodnica, Stará Bystrica, Oščadnica, Zborov, Kalinov, Svrčinovec, Javorské, turned into villages, respectively.
kopanice In the second half of the 16th century incurred for shepherding rights settlements Dunajov, Ochodnica a Stará Bystrica.
Additional settlements of Kysuce colonization based on this law include: Olešná, Vysoká nad Kysucou (from the homesteads in the early 18th century.
At the same time arose the vast Turzovka, of which only recently created municipality Klokočov, Korňa and Dlhá nad Kysucou.