The supply section of a unit, with two-wheeled carts called "agava", probably in the Maglenica valley in the rear of the front of the Serbian II Army.
Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection ([https://velikirat.nb.rs\](https://velikirat.nb.rs))
The plaque was put up on 24.06.2026. at Slana cove to commemorate the victims of extermination camps on Pag island which existed in 1941.
This is the 4th plaque, with previous ones destroyed in 1991, 2010 and 2013.
Photo by Jernej Božič.
Life of Saint Sava: birth of Rastko, son of Stefan Nemanja, his pious youth, early rule, and turn to ascetic life, by Teodosije of Hilandar.
Inv. No. 6138
German artillery in flames, 15. X 1944. in the King Aleksandar Street - today the Revolution Boulevard \[now King Aleksandar Boulevard\].
Photo gifted by Vojin Đorđević, journalist, Draže Pavlovića 3.
Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.
Introduction to Herbert Vivian's 1897 travelogue "Servia, The Poor Man's Paradise"
Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection ([https://velikirat.nb.rs\](https://velikirat.nb.rs))
A study of foreign soldiers in medieval Serbia, tracing their roles, origins, and impact on the Nemanjić-era army from 1166–1371.
Inventory no. 9244
Ljubo - Čedo Čupić People's Hero before his execution in Nikšić on 5. May 1942.
MRNJ sig.neg. A-956/13.
Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.
H.R.H. Prince Alexander with the officers observes the Bulgarian positions at Čeganj mountain, Kajmakčalan, Macedonia.
Photo by Risto Šuković
Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection ([https://velikirat.nb.rs\](https://velikirat.nb.rs))
Inventory number 14066
Members of the Bulgarian special units for anti-partisan warfare, which committed many crimes against civilians in the Vranje district.
Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.
Reverend Denton on the Ottoman rule over Balkan Christians, British policy, Russian influence, and the Eastern Question.
The life of King Vladislav II reveals dynastic struggles, Serbian-Hungarian relations, and the medieval battle for the Serbian throne.
Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)
Hi! Been reading for a while, first time poster.
Run a WP website of knowledge articles (mostly primary sources and academic papers in History) with a ton of backlog in terms of what could be posted. Think tens of thousands of printed pages of documents, which could be turned into thousand or tens of thousands of blog posts for easy access. Thinking about seeting up a chatbot to help users navigate and find what they want. The idea for the prototype setup/alfa would be:
LLM to provide NLP capabilities for users (Not sure which model to use)
Cross-encoder to deal with the re-ranking (BAAI? Or is there a better option?)
Still need to decide on the DB (have some experience with vector DBs like Chroma, still need to think through some of the choices)
Hardware: the WP site is externally hosted, so no overhead there. Got an older machine for prototyping (and learning to work within tight constraints): 16GB RAM, Ryzen 5 1400, GTX 1070 8 GB VRAM. Considering to maybe get an HP Z640 (mostly for the Xeon E5-1650 v4) for a two-machine setup, where all the LLM parts would be on the Ryzen 5 1400+GTX machine, while the Z640 would deal with the rest. And then probably use the Z640 to do other things like run Python scripts etc that we already have for processing data.
OS: CachyOS, no Windows for us.
Data complexity: a mix of languages, mostly from the South Slavic group, German, Russian, some Hungarian, Italian, maybe Greek, we'll see about Church Slavonic in the future as well.
Concurrency: probably not huge, it's a fairly niche area, but good to have some headroom there. If the need comes, can always upgrade hardware or move it to the cloud if that becomes an issue.
The chatbot comes in as a 0-temp system to handle users querying the system in different languages and smoothing that over with the multiple languages (and metadata) in the knowledge base. The output would be a straight set of links to documents that the cross-encoder spits out (at least to begin with).
Roast the idea and potential setup, so we can make it better (hardware limitations remain).
Title: Member of Nedić's Serbian State Guard combing the terrain in Serbia in 1941.
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What it should say: Members of the Police loyal to Milan Nedić combing the terrain in Serbia, sometime in 1941. (The members of the Police joined the Serbian State Guard in March 1942).
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\[Side note: the writing on the photo points out a "Gestapovac" aka a member or informant for the Gestapo.\]
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Inventory number 10940.
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Courtesy of Museum of Yugoslavia.