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The article presents the most important trends of the last thirty years in Slovenian historiography in the field of Slovenian cultural and political relations with western Slavic nations (Poles, Czechs, Slovaks) during the second half of the 19th century. There are analyzed the views of the Slovenian historiography about the broadly defined Slavic idea. The opinions and positions towards various forms of cooperation between Slavs as Austro-Slavism, Pan-Slavism, and Neo-Slavism are presented.1The output and views of the Slovenian historiography are separately discussed in three fields: the Polish- Slovene, the Czech-Slovene, and the Slovak-Slovene relations in the second half of the 19th century.