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The article presents the category of Słupsk regionalism, proposed by Zbigniew Zielonka, which has been developed on the basis of local and regional investigations. The theoretical formulations were relatively quickly realised in the series of investigative studies, the publication of academic and popular works as well as in local regional conferences. The topics discussed so far are presented in the present study. The discussions prove that there is a need of developing the theoretical concept itself, but also that only the theory which is supported by practice can yield future investigations of the problem of „the small regions”.