Geography is the study of overall relationship, interconnection and correlation of natural and social components including processes on the Earth’s surface, which build regional structure and landscape image. The paper gives a condensed historical overview of the development of the Slovenian geography. Scientific research activities, pedagogical organisation, prevailing ideology, international collaborations and publicity are chronologically presented following particular historical periods. Prescientific period with a stress on the cartography of Slovenian territory is presented first, followed by the period between the middle of the 19th century and the end of the World War I, when a small number of Slovenian geographers joined the achievements in cartography and the new world discovery.