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Vlad al II-lea Dracul, tatăl lui Vlad Țepeș, cel de la care se trage această poreclă sumbră a clanului Drăculeștilor. a rămas pe nedrept, pentru posteritate,...
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Vlad II, also called Vlad Dracul, became a... The name Dracula inspires awe and fear wherever it is uttered. Yet, "Dracula" is Romanian for "son of the dragon."
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Mar 20, 2022 · This is the incredible story of Vlad the Impaler from his youth in Wallachia and childhood as a hostage to his wars against the Ottoman Turks and his great passion for impaling his enemies.
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Oct 22, 2024 · Vlad the Impaler, prince of Walachia (now in Romania) whose cruel methods of punishing his enemies gained notoriety in 15th-century Europe. Some in the scholarly community have suggested that Bram Stoker’s Dracula character was based on Vlad. Learn more about Vlad in this article.
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- Vlad was a voivode (prince) of Walachia (part of modern Romania). Surrounded by enemies that included the Hungarians, the Ottomans, his younger bro...
- Vlad was the second son of Vlad II Dracul. When he was 11 years old, Vlad was sent to the court of the Ottoman sultan Murad II as a hostage. His fa...
- Vlad was a minor player during the early period of Ottoman domination of what is today Romania. He likely would have remained a historical curiosit...
- In 1476 Vlad was ambushed by an Ottoman patrol and killed. He was reportedly decapitated, and his head was sent to the sultan in Constantinople as...
Oct 26, 2022 · His career, as this timeline will show, reveals that his fortunes could rise and fall very dramatically. 1429–1430 – Birth of Vlad, son of Vlad II Dracul, in Transylvania. 1431 – Vlad II’s claim to the throne of Wallachia is supported by the Holy Roman Empire. A 15th-century depiction of Vlad II Dracul of Wallachia.
Dec 15, 2021 · Not long after the impalement of Ottoman prisoners of war, in August 1462, Vlad was forced into exile in Hungary, unable to defeat his much more powerful adversary, Mehmet II. Vlad was...
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Vlad II (Romanian: Vlad al II-lea), also known as Vlad Dracul (Vlad al II-lea Dracul) or Vlad the Dragon (before 1395 – November 1447), was Voivode of Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447. He is internationally known as the father of Vlad the Impaler, or Dracula.
