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Vlad the Impaler: 7 gruesome acts by the man who inspired Dracula
Vlad Dracula (c. 1431 – c.
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1476), Prince of Wallachia, is to Romanians a national hero, revered for his resistance to the Ottoman Turks, but to the world, he is famous as the bloodthirsty inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula.
Was Vlad a victim of the propaganda of his enemies, or was he deserving of the nickname history has given him - Vlad the Impaler?
As with much of history, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Here, though, we are going to look more toward the villainous side and recount some of the grisly atrocities that were attributed to Vlad.
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These are seven times Vlad Dracula was unspeakably cruel.
1. The gory sacking of Brașov
Growing up, Vlad had learned about the art of governing through fear and cunning. Ottoman Sultan Murad II had held a teenage Vlad, and the powerful Hungarian nobleman John Hunyadi, under whose flag Vlad fought battles against the Ottomans in his twenties, as ho