In Macedonia, and in Macedonian studies in general, it developed during the 19th century, when the first few research results have been provided.
Macedonian onomastics, generally speaking, is divided into toponomastics and anthroponomastics.
[1] Macedonian onomastics is divided into two large categories, which in turn include several different subcategories or disciplines.
The names are direct consequence of the different people, languages and cultures that existed on that particular area.
The main principle that is taken intro account is the fact that even though the languages and people that lived in that area disappeared (via migration or assimilation), the names of the places, their meanings and origin remain.