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GORY AND BLOODY FACTS ABOUT THE REAL DRACULA

Added on: 21st Aug 2016

 

 

THE REAL HISTORICAL DRACULA WAS VLAD III

(AKA VLAD THE IMPALER). HE WAS BORN IN

SIGHISOARA, TRANSYLVANIA, IN 1431. A RESTAURANT

SITS AT THE SITE OF HIS BIRTHPLACE TODAY AND

RECEIVES THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS ANNUALLY

FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

Sighisoara, Transylvania

 

 

DRACULA’S FATHER WAS CALLED DRACUL,

MEANING “DRAGON” ACCORDING TO SOME

SOURCES, AND “DEVIL” ACCORDING TO OTHERS,

BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO THE ORDER OF THE

DRAGON, WHICH FOUGHT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Dracul

 

 

HOWEVER, DRACULA’S MOTHER IS UNKNOWN, THOUGH

AT THE TIME, HIS FATHER WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE

BEEN MARRIED TO PRINCESS CNEAJNA OF MOLDAVIA.

BECAUSE HE HAD A NUMBER OF MISTRESSES AT

ALL TIMES, NOBODY CAN BE SURE WHICH WAS

DRACULA’S REAL MOTHER

Dracula's mother

 

 

DRACULA LIVED IN A TIME OF CONSTANT WAR.

TRANSYLVANIA WAS AT THE FRONTIER OF TWO GREAT

EMPIRES: THE OTTOMAN AND THE AUSTRIAN

HABSBURGS. HE WAS IMPRISONED AT A YOUNG AGE,

FIRST BY THE TURKS, WHO HAULED HIM AWAY IN

CHAINS, AND LATER BY THE HUNGARIANS. DRACULA’S

FATHER WAS MURDERED, WHILE HIS OLDER BROTHER,

MIRCEA, WAS BLINDED WITH RED-HOT IRON STAKES

AND BURIED ALIVE, TWO FACTS THAT CONTRIBUTED

A LOT TO HIM BECOMING SO VILE AND VICIOUS

LATER IN LIFE

Transylvania

 

 

IT IS BELIEVED THAT A YOUNG DRACULA SPENT

SOME TIME IN CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1443 IN THE

COURT OF CONSTANTINE XI PALAIOLOGOS, A

LEGENDARY FIGURE OF GREEK FOLKLORE AND

THE FINAL EMPEROR OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE.

IT IS SUGGESTED BY SOME HISTORIANS THAT

IT WAS THERE THAT HE DEVELOPED HIS

HATE TOWARD THE OTTOMANS

Constantine XI Palaiologos

 

 

IT IS BELIEVED DRACULA WAS MARRIED TWICE.

HIS FIRST WIFE’S IDENTITY IS UNKNOWN, THOUGH

SHE MAY HAVE BEEN A TRANSYLVANIAN NOBLEWOMAN.

SHE BORE HIS SON AND HEIR, MIHNEA CEL RAU. HE

MARRIED A SECOND TIME AFTER HIS PERIOD OF

IMPRISONMENT IN HUNGARY. ILONA SZILAGYI WAS THE

DAUGHTER OF A HUNGARIAN NOBLE AND SHE BORE

HIM TWO SONS, NEITHER OF WHOM BECAME RULERS

Dracula's wife

 

 

THE NAME TEPES IS ROMANIAN FOR “THE IMPALER.”

IT WAS A TITLE GIVEN TO HIM POSTHUMOUSLY

Dictionary

 

 

VLAD III EARNED HIS “IMPALER” MONIKER BY KILLING

THOUSANDS OF TURKS AND OTHERS BY THE GRISLY

METHOD THAT HE LEARNED DURING HIS TEENS, WHEN

HE WAS A POLITICAL HOSTAGE OF THE OTTOMAN

EMPIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE

Constantinople

 

 

IT’S ESTIMATED THAT DRACULA WAS RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE DEATH OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED

THOUSAND PEOPLE (MOST OF THEM TURKS), MAKING

HIM THE SINGLE MOST VICIOUS ENEMY THE

OTTOMAN EMPIRE EVER FACED

It’s estimated that Dracula was responsible for the death of more than one hundred thousand people (most of them Turks), making him the single most vicious enemy the Ottoman Empire ever faced.

 


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