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'''Vlad the Impaler''' was the prince of a part of [[Transylvania]] named "Wallachia" he was nicknamed the impaler because of his preferred method of execution to have criminals thrown on stakes.
'''Vlad II Țepeș''' (in full, '''''Vlad III Dracula'''''; 1431-1476) military governor and prince of [[Wallachia]] (1448; 1456–1462; 1476) within what is now present-day [[Romania]], and notorious for the cruelty he practiced upon his enemies. Nicknamed ''the impaler'' (Romanian: ''Țepeș''), Vlad III may also have been the primary inspiration for author [[Bram Stoker]]'s fictional [[vampire]], [[Dracula]].
== Life ==
== Life ==
Vlad Dracula was born in Sighişoara, in Transylvania, the the second of four sons of Prince Vlad II Dracul of Wallachia, an independent principality of [[Romania]]; it was the elder Vlad who founded the "Order of the Dragon" ("Dracul") and adopted the title as a surname. Wallachia was the object of a power struggle between its neighbours [[Hungary]] and the Turks of the [[Ottoman Empire]], and by the mid-15th century the principality had begun to pay tribute to the latter. In 1444, Vlad Dracul sent his two younger sons to Turkey to prove his loyalty to the Ottoman sultan. The younger Vlad then spent the next four years in Adrianople as a hostage.
Vlad Dracula was born in Sighişoara, in Transylvania, the son of Prince Vlad II Dracul of Wallachia (Dracul means “the dragon”, and Dracula, “son of the dragon”). Wallachia, an independent principality of [[Romania]], was the object of a power struggle between its neighbours, [[Hungary]] and the Turks of the [[Ottoman Empire]], and by the mid-15th century had begun to pay tribute to the latter. In 1444, Vlad Dracul sent his two younger sons to Turkey to prove his loyalty to the Ottoman sultan. Vlad Dracula spent the next four years in Adrianople as a hostage.
In 1447, Vlad Dracul was murdered, possibly by the Hungarian general János Hunyadi, who then made a member of his own Danesti clan, Prince Vladislav II, ruler of Wallachia. The following year the Turks gave Vlad an army with which he seized the Wallachian throne. He ruled for only two months before Hunyadi forced him into exile in Moldavia, and Vladislav II returned as prince. However, Vladislav II soon allied Wallachia with the Turks, causing Hunyadi to support Vlad’s return to the throne in 1456.
In 1447, Vlad Dracul was murdered, possibly by the Hungarian general János Hunyadi, who then made a member of his own Danesti clan, Prince Vladislav II, ruler of Wallachia. The following year the Turks gave Vlad an army with which he seized the Wallachian throne. He ruled for only two months before Hunyadi forced him into exile in Moldavia, and Vladislav II returned as prince. However, Vladislav II soon allied Wallachia with the Turks, causing Hunyadi to support Vlad’s return to the throne in 1456.
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