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At the beginning of May, Vlad crossed the border into Transylvania and started destroying villages, crops, and the outskirts of towns, and taking people prisoner. It is said that he had dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people impaled in front of Kronstadt, as a reminder of the wretched help they had given to his enemy. The looting was also great.
May 22, 2013 · Count Dracula was inspired by Central European folktales as well as historical accounts of the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler.
Sep 21, 2023 · The Legendary Killer of Over 80,000 People. Vlad III Dracula/Vlad the Impaler. Voivode of Wallachia. The brutal Vlad the Impaler, believed to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s , was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania (today’s Romania) in 1431. He was part of the Draculesti dynasty. Vlad was the 2nd son of Vlad II Dracul and Eupraxia of ...
Feb 27, 2020 · Vlad the Impaler, also known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad III Dracula, gave his name to fiction’s most famous vampire. The Romanian ruler had been dead for 400 years when Bram Stoker borrowed it for his 1897 novel. As Stoker lifted a moniker from the mists of history, much of the true story of the man who came to be called the Impaler was obfuscated ...
4 days ago · Vlad the Impaler Vlad III — known as Vlad the Impaler or Voivode (Prince) Vlad Dracula — was born in Wallachia (modern Romania) some time between 1428 and 1431, and he died either in 1476 or 1477.
The Impalings of Vlad the Impaler. One of the most infamous characters from the Middle Ages was Vlad III Dracula, the prince of Wallachia. Here is the story of how he gained the nickname of ‘the Impaler’. The Histories, by Laonikos Chalkokondyles, which has been recently translated by Anthony Kaldellis, describes the fall of the Byzantine ...
To research his immortal tale, Stoker immersed himself in the history, lore and legends of Transylvania, which he called a "whirlpool for the imagination." Count Dracula was inspired by one of the best-known figures of Romanian history, Vlad Draculea, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who was the ruler of Walachia during mid-1400s.
