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The study analyses the research of life style and traditional culture of the Slovak minorities living in Central and Southern Europe conducted by the research fellows of the Institute of Ethnology SAS. It describes original interest to this topic in 1950s, its culmination during the period of 1971-1975 and following stage in 1991-2005. The main part of the study is concerned with the last phase of research resulting in publishing five atlases of traditional culture in Hungary, Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Croatia as well as two monographs on folk culture in Croatia and Ukraine. The conclusion deals with an ambition of the authors to create wide-ranging Atlas of folk culture of Slovak minorities in Central and Southern Europe and to compare it with the Ethnographical Atlas of Slovakia.