Count Dracula

Posted by on Feb 28, 2010 in Romania stories, Wierd | Comments Off

Although the first mention of Count Dracula in the novel of Bram Stoker – “Dracula” (1897), Stoker was not the man who invented this name. The original Dracula lived in the fifteenth century, was not Earl, but the prince was not a vampire (and nor was it ever popular tradition associated with these beings). His namewas Vlad Tepes, and Stoker...

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Dracula

Posted by on Feb 19, 2010 in Romania stories | Comments Off

It is assumed that Vlad the Impaler, son of Vlad Dracul was born in 1431, probably at the Princely Court in Targoviste that most princes mountain, or in Sighisoara while his father was in Transylvania between 1431-1436.(unfortunately the source, however controversial, is in German) is the official name of “Valdislaus I Basarab-Luxembourg, baptized in the...

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Dracula the image of Romania

Posted by on Oct 29, 2009 in Romania`s reality, Travel To Romania, Travel to Transilvania, Wierd | Comments Off

Dracula the image of Romania Dracula – as perceived today – is the result of interference of the real historical facts, entered into legend, about the reign of Vlad Tepes – Dracula, the records of the chroniclers of the time, with the intention of the great prince put in a bad light, amplified in the next century by association with the...

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