He inflicted this type of torture on foreign and domestic enemies alike: notably, as he retreated from a battle in 1462, he left a field filled with thousands of impaled victims as a deterrent to pursuing Ottoman forces. That year he escaped Ottoman capture only to be intercepted by ...
Vlad the Impaler (born 1431, Sighișoara, Transylvania [now in Romania]—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest, Romania) was a voivode (military governor, or prince) of Walachia (1448; 1456–1462; 1476) whose cruel methods of punishing his enemies gained notoriety in 15th-century Euro...
who intermittently ruled an area of the Balkans called Wallachia in the mid 15thcentury. He was also called by the names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. The word Tepes stands for "impaler" and was so coined because of
Vlad The Impaler crawls out his den Like itsy bitsy spider he crawls back Again If Vlad would have a penny for every Time he's bad, then Vlad would have Plenty... but no-no Vlad has a bad breath caused by Tooth-decay when stalking his victims ...
Even more outrageous, in the view of Romanian movie-goers, is Coppola’s “Dracula,” which unabashedly merges the real and fictional Draculas into a blood-besotted, time-traveling count. The story of a nobleman who fed on victims’ blood reached here only last year, when Stoker’s novel...
A woodcut from a 1499 pamphlet depicts Vlad III dining among the impaled corpses of his victims.(Image credit: Public Domain) To consolidate his power as voivode, Vlad needed to quell the incessant conflicts that had historically taken place between Wallachia's boyars. According to Constantin Rez...
A woodcut from a 1499 pamphlet depicts Vlad III dining among the impaled corpses of his victims. (Image credit: Public Domain) To consolidate his power as voivode, Vlad needed to quell the incessant conflicts that had historically taken place between Wallachia's boyars. According to Constantin ...