Vlad Dracula was born in 1431 in the town of Sighisoara. His father

was Vlad Dracul, the appointed military governor of Transylvania at the time. (...Real Prince Dracula, N. pag.) He had to pay tribute to Turkey because of an old agreement between Turkey and his father Mircea the Old. During his years as governor Vlad Dracul was secretly gathering up supporters to seize the throne of Walachia from its current ruler, Alexandru I. (Ratiu, N. pag.) They eventually succeeded and Vlad Dracul became Prince Vlad II. Turkey unsuccessfully invaded Transylvania in 1442, and Vlad and his family were driven out (by Hungarians because of Dracul’s loyalty to Turkey) and Basarab

Dracula ruled Walachia from 1456 to 1462, and most of the atrocities that made him infamous took place during these years. He ruled with a brutally powerful hand, killing and torturing thousands. Some of the methods used to kill and torture were disembodiment, burning, strangulation, cutting off of facial features, skinning, exposure to the elements, and many more no doubt. (LeBlanc, N. pag.) But his favorite method was impaling, hence the nickname “the impaler.” Impaling involves sticking someone on a sharp stick and letting their own gravity cause them to slowly die, sometimes taking a few days. A bizarre fetish of Dracula’s was having dinner banquets in the middle of a field of dead and dying corpses. (...Dracula the Impaler, N. pag,)

Dracula was both feared and idolized by his people. Despite his brutality his campaigns against the Turks made him loved by his people. (Geringer, N. pag.) No one dared question or defy him. To prove this he placed a golden cup in the center of Tirgoviste square, which was never stolen or even moved throughout his time in power. (...Dracula the Impaler, N. pag.) To this day a statue of him stands at the old capital Tirgoviste. According to legend, shortly after becoming prince Dracula invited beggars and people either sick, old, or very poor to a banquet. After the meal, Dracula asked, “Would you like to be without cares and lacking nothing in this world?” The crowd of course responded that they did. Vlad then had the area they were in boarded up and set on fire, sparing no one inside. He said he did this to rid his kingdom the b

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