Litava (Hungarian: Litva) is a village and municipality in the Krupina District of the Banská Bystrica Region of Slovakia.

The village was mentioned for the first time in a document from 1135.

Already in this year a Romanesque chapel was present in the village.

With the presence of this church, the village served as a kind of spiritual, cultural and social center of the region since the 12th century.

In the 15th century Litava was a tolling point.