Sklabiňa (Hungarian: Szklabinya) is a village and municipality in Martin District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia.

[5] In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1242 - Zklabonya, later as Sclabonya (1252), Sclouuan (Slovan - the native name of Slavs, 1266), Sclabana (1309) but also as Szklabinka (1736) or in the Hungarized form Szklabinya (1786).

The locality was settled already by the people of Púchov culture who built a hillfort near the present-day village.

Before the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, the village was part of Turóc County within the Kingdom of Hungary.

On 21 August 1944 (one week before the Slovak National Uprising), Sklabiňa became the first village where the partisans raised the Czechoslovak flag and declared that it is a liberated territory of Czechoslovakia.