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This contribution offers an overview of the formation of Slovak onomastics as a scientific discipline from the 1940's onwards when the foundations of theoretical onomastics were laid. In 1964, the Slovak onomastic commission was founded which was able to organize a series of onomastic conferences. Unfortunately, no special department for research of proper names has been established at 'Jazykovedny ustav Ludovita Stura' of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.