Yup. Prince Vlad Tepes Draculea lived between 1431 and 1476. His body supposedly disappeared. 400 years later Bram Stoker wrote Dracula with its main character seemingly based on Prince Dracula.
Vlad Dracula was not "a minor Count in a different part of Transylvania". He was a Prince, the ruler of Wallachia, a country to the south of Transylvania. He was not by any means minor - until his death he defended Europe against the Ottoman invasions.
Wasn't there some type of plan at one point to build at least one or two 'Draculaland' amusement parks in Romania? kind of like Euro Disney but with blood and vampire themed rides to them? :-/ I thought I had read that was in the works.
I am sick and tired of the lies being posted.about Vlad Drăculea, which is how it was spelt in old Romanian. It meant he was the son of Vlad Dracul and Dracul meant Dragon NOT devil in old Romanian, as Vlad Dracul in 1431 was inducted as a member of the Order of the Dragon, a chivalric order founded by Emperor Sigismund in 1408.
I was fortunate enough to have a Romanian friend who told me all about this already. This is a good video for those who don't know the truth about the castle, etc. I guess it can be fun as a tourist to go and see the fake one, but to those who want real history and life don't waste your money on coca-cola castles.
@40Pacino We view him as a hero because if it wasn't for him we would have been part of Turkey now, since the Ottoman Empire tried to conquer us, but he managed to take out an empire that was almost 5 times our size. He did that by doing some very crazy things, but we are thankful because we still have our culture and our land because of him.
Vampire is real in the old days if people think ids fake then how the olden days see them it’s real but no more but it might be some left in dark place
@C12830772 I can understand that Romanians might have a sour outlook on the Stoker novel, but consider would Vlad Tepes be known by very many people outside of Romania in the 21st century aside from some historians if it wasn't for Bram Stoker's novel?
haha im sorry but everytime I listen to the man representing the transylvania society talk, all I can think about is him being a vampire, or not leading on completely what he knows.
@eustiutot I don't think Romania is the "vampire country" other Eastern European had vampire myths too. I guess there's more to Romanian myth than vampires. I guess Bram Stoker just picked the country randomly. Ever played Castlevania? Yea, I think he was quite that rich actually^^.
anyone from this world is welcome in my beautiful country , Romania , but not hungayrians..Hotel Dracula is in my county..Bistritz..wild and beautiful zone..if you want to visit it contact me :))
@nikkijaneallison I love Romania as well, I know it has some bad images from people, and there is much wrong with every country- none are perfect. I have found Romanians to be smart, friendly, and all around wonderful. They go out or their way to help Americans by speaking English and they are very adept at the language. Bram Stoker never set foot in the country, but I don't want to go into that here. Love Romania!
For God's sake, the impaling was a common execution method in the era, and the brutality and cruelty of which Vlad the Impaler is accused, was pure propaganda, to justify his arrest by king Matias Corvinus, King of Hungary (he arrested Vlad because he had received orders from the Pope to help the Wallachian prince against the Ottomans - which King Matias did't even want to hear of). Even Baba Novac, one of Michael the Brave's generals, was impaled by Hungarians near the city walls of Koloszvar!!
@guevarrajustine but don't be confused.in those countries there are also romanians that work hard and honest to earn a living for their families back home.the gypsies we are talking about have a darker shade to their skin,kinda like the indians.if people weren't ignorant they would realise the difference and not hate romania or romanians,and hate only the real bad guys-those gypsies
@MBlionz Why does this matter so much to you? Though the past is fascinating, it is the past and these are modern times. We were in the wrong, but the Crusades were at least five hundred years ago. Can't we just bury the hatchet?
@DACIAN77RO ..Domnul meu, cu tot respectul dar cred ca dumneavoastra va aflati intr-o mare confuzie. Am vazut ce ati raspuns unui interlocutor....nu aveti dreptate. Faptul ca lui Tepes i s-a atribuit numele de drac sau`` draculea`` sau dracul cel mic din punct de vedere al unui diminutiv popular, se datoreaza faptului ca a mostenit aceasta porecla de la tatal sau Vlad, al ll-lea fiu al lui Mircea cel Batran, fiu care intr-adevar facea parte din ordinul Dragonilor.
i think you know that dracula isant real this is a beautiful country and im proud im a part of it but thi will go to hell because of the new generation i love our old villages this video has actualy make me cry so sad so sad
Vlad was a good leader maybe, i dont know but he did bad things. He was torturing ottomans. Because they didnt like each other and the other politics stuff. I think you care about it so much , guys! Take it easy...
It's funny how you speak about ignorant Americans who "create a mith (myth) out of their ignorance." I find your entire argument laughable as Bram Stoker (the creator of the Dracula character and myth) was Irish, not American. Why not arm yourself with facts rather than your own ignorance before you begin casting accusations.
@comedyman112 It means devil by association in exactly the same way that the 'serpent/dragon' of the bible is also the devil. Dracul means dragon which in turn means snake which in turn is the biblical satan, hence dracul is used as a name for the devil in his guise as a dragon/snake. vlad lll got called dracul/dragon becaue he belonged to the Order of the Dragon and wore its sigil.
Mă tu ai plecat de mic din România din câte am înţeles, eu stau aici de 20 de ani(întreaga viaţă) şi îţi spun sigur ca vorbitor de română de zi cu zi că în nicio regiune a ţării drac nu înseamnă dragon, drac înseamnă diavol, românii zic la dragon ca şi vorbitorii de limbă engleză... dragon. Că o fi însemnat şi altceva sau că însuşi titlul e o traducere eronată(ar fi penibil) e altă povestea.
@CozmoLeo He punished people for not being Christians, and I'm not talking about the Muslims who invaded Romania, because obviously war is cruel. He also systematically eradicated the old boyar class of Wallachia. Seems fair to you? Not to mention the fact multiple sources confirm that he took sadistic pleasure in torturing people.
no it isn't ... it was called so just because he was brutally killing bad people by using a special method : he pushed 'em on a sharp piece of wood.. that type of wood = teapa (its a romanian popular word but i don't know if it is recognized by dictionaries) From "teapa" - "tepes" (which is kind of an adjective of the word "teapa")
@gogoasacenusie I have no doubt about the second language @ Microsoft being Romanian, my BF is Romanian and is a pc genius...I would LOVE to visit, and you are all welcome to visit here as far as I'm concerned!!!!!!!! Thanks for the "juicy" offer...tee heehee.....:P
So this Dracula theme park, Is it something like Euro Disney but on the scale of a house of horrors in a makeshift castle like Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty's castle? That really sounds depressing.
@CozmoLeo Intelligent? Most certainly. One of the problems is bad press, but a culture that produced Eliade, Cioran, Tzara and so many literary giants is hardly the product of gypsies.
wtf are you saying? dracula is just the nickname of an past romanian king : vlad Tepes the name comes from "drac" wich means in romanian Devil what order of the dragon?
Hmmm, the tale of Dracula was based on the vampire myth, not the other way around and of course, dracul means dragon not devil so Dracula was son of the dragon.
@ClarnissaSalvatore and whats wrong with that? I was born in Transylvania (now Australian) and all my friends think it's awesome...bit of a gimmick really :)
@CozmoLeo Cu tot respectul ....singurul care a apartinut Ordinului dragonilor(ordin cavaleresc) a fost tatal lui Vlad Tepes , iar faptul ca i se spunea dracul i se datoreaza armurii pe care o purta si care a dus la aceasta porecla,Vlad tepes fiul lui Vlad care era al ll-lea mostenitor la domnie, primul fiind printul Mihail fratele mai mare, a mostenit porecla de ``drac`` de la tatal sau!....Intr-adevar sunt mai mullte teorii....
Partea proasta este ca şi peste hotare susţin sus şi tare, prin intermediul profesorilor sau unor ameţiţi care rescriu istoria pentru occidentali, ca Ardealul a fost al lor mai întâii. Am avut o astfel de profesoara de origine maghiara la facultate in Canada şi ce mi-au auzit urechile acolo... Venea cu hărţi dinaintea Trianonului şi le arata ignoranţilor de canadieni cum arata Ungaria înainte vreme. Degeaba le spuneam eu ca nu-i asa, ea era profesoara şi, deci, avea autoritate in materie. :-(
Don't mind him, he is one of the few Romanians whom most likely doesn't even have a clue of his own history, let alone to know Stoker's nationality. I myself am Romanian and don't have anything against Stoker's novel, quite the opposite! The only thing that bothers me is that most people see Vlad as this pshyco, but that's only because of the Hungarians traitors whom are always making fake stories and trying to rewrite history in their favour. Till this day day dream of Transilvania!
Real Vlad Tsepesh was a hero and a defender of his beloved land from the Turks. He WAS extremely cruel on his oponents, as well on the Turks (he used to torture and to slay Turkish officers & soldiers captured in Romanian mountains after their conquering attempts), but that is not the reason for anybody to depict him as a son of the Satan. People from Balkan remember A LOT of monstruous cruelty from their islamic oppressors, so we surely won't commiserate those victims of count Dracula!! >:)))
@40Pacino Well the Confederate States sure viewed Abe Lincoln as a tyrant, and John Wilkes Boothe shot him and said something like "Thus always to tyrants." "Honest Abe" wasn't against slavery at all but as the war progressed he saw it fit to free them to create chaos in the south where many blacks who were close to union lines fled. Thus began the great myth that the whole american civil war was about slavery which is nonsense. Change Abe with George Washington instead.
@40Pacino Yup.. he was a big "Law and Order" guy. Basically if he lived now..... well.. let's say there wouldn't be very many people clogging up the prison system or illegally entering the country. (grin) Good symbol of this.. if any can imagine it. He placed a priceless gold chalice in every town square. They remained there for his entire reign. The story goes that many drank from them freely.. but NO one would dare steal one. Imagine that today.
i studied turcology and i can say dracula and Mehmed II grew up together,they were like brothers,they are even legends that they are bloodbrothers.and as dracula became the prince in wallachia,mehmed II sent him a letter,that he should stop to murders and asked him to come back to istanbul..and yes as everyone knows in the end dracula was killed and his head was sent to his best fried/enemy to mehmed the conquerer of istanbul
@crystalbratcher30 He was not an evil man, what you heard is pure propaganda, to justify his arrest by King Matias Corvin, king of Hungary (who received orders from the Pope to help the Wallachian prince against the Ottomans, but tried to find reasons for refusing - so he accused Vlad of heresy and the cruelty we believe today as being true). In fact, impaling was a common execution method in those times. Evan Baba Novac, one of Michael the Brave's generals was impalied by Hungarians in 1601!
@highwaystar1417 Romanian culture and Gypsy culture have little in common.Romanian culture is a very old European sedentaric culture,with richest folklore in Europe,beautiful hand-adorned costumes, medieval religious painting and arhitecture,old or modern European philosophy,history,art and literature.It's a vast topic.Gypsy culture is a nomadic subspecie of culture,with different influences from country to country,the most obvious print in Gypsy culture being the oriental(turkish) touch.
@floodkhan Here is muhammad in his own words saying he died from the poison, and this is narrated by aisha, unless your a shia please dont say this is false narration, although even shia believed muhammad died from poison..
Narrated 'Aisha: The Prophet in his ailment in which he died, used to say, "O 'Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison."
i never heard about draculestilor ... well.. as far as i know.. the order of the dragon.... which was named in vlads days " draculea" was a tradition that began even before his"daddy" was born =) by the way, his "daddy" was a cruel bastard who sent both of his sons, vlad and his younger brother to the turkish sultan of the osmanian imperio.. his younger brother soon gave in, and became favorite of the sultan.. vlad fought and was being tortured..just as he did to others lateron..
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Read the book Dracula! At that time Transylvania was the part of Hungarian Kingdom. And Dracula is a fictional character, he's just based on Vlad Ţepeş. Bram Stoker got the idea of count from stories of Tepes and Erzsébet Báthory, that was told him by Armenius Vámbéry. It's like Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was based on the personality of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, but Victor Franenstein is not English. And in the book count Dracula tells, that he is Székely, so ZoltanKH was right.
@EUmpb yea i know i Romania didnt exist ...but i put ''romanian(walachian)'' :D...yes and he fight for hungarian crown...but they never helped him!!!!....he smashed the otomans ALONE!!! thats why he became legend....he never benn helped by some1..in military expeditions vs turks..only on politic plan was helped by Stefan The Great(ruler of Moldavia) they were relatives.
@Kangsryche at least i know enough english to reply to someone like you.your blog on 'youtube' is spot on.well done!!! you describe yourself very well and if you know so much about Vlad Tepes i presume you are smart enough to reply in romanian language.dont bother to reply cos i will ignore your reply.WORK ON your IQ
well guys Vlad Tepes has nothing to do with vampire- Dracula- is from Dracul- Familia Draculestilor after his daddy and tho this story about vampires has to come from somewhere right? well I did some research and I found out that there was a contess a long time ago . . . if you wanna know more reply or send me a comment ;)
Same here ..hehehehe.. I'm from Canada...In general people are nice...and usually i'm spending time showing them our culture, the good stuff. One is having fun with plum brandy...and wash everything with beer...then after few minutes i am alone. SANATATE!
My wife is from Bucharest,we go back when we can to visit her great family. Romania is wonderful!
Yup. Prince Vlad Tepes Draculea lived between 1431 and 1476. His body supposedly disappeared. 400 years later Bram Stoker wrote Dracula with its main character seemingly based on Prince Dracula.
how u said this? i would like to know if possible wrire some resources.
i have a feeling that if Vlad Tepes knew his birth home had become a restaurant he would impale the owners for disrespecting him.
Vlad Dracula was not "a minor Count in a different part of Transylvania". He was a Prince, the ruler of Wallachia, a country to the south of Transylvania. He was not by any means minor - until his death he defended Europe against the Ottoman invasions.
I was not even born that year WOW!?
In romania "you suck" takes on a new meaning.
Interesting video ✴️🐉
Wasn't there some type of plan at one point to build at least one or two 'Draculaland' amusement parks in Romania? kind of like Euro Disney but with blood and vampire themed rides to them? :-/
I thought I had read that was in the works.
Oh, yeah... That's my country! :)
wonderful place!
all i have to say is wow and omg this is awesome
I am sick and tired of the lies being posted.about Vlad Drăculea, which is how it was spelt in old Romanian. It meant he was the son of Vlad Dracul and Dracul meant Dragon NOT devil in old Romanian, as Vlad Dracul in 1431 was inducted as a member of the Order of the Dragon, a chivalric order founded by Emperor Sigismund in 1408.
Not only that, the fictional Dracula may have been based on Elizabeth Bathory.
You know jack shit about romania dude there is no old romanien language...
Ding dong; you're wrong!
Well.
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I was fortunate enough to have a Romanian friend who told me all about this already. This is a good video for those who don't know the truth about the castle, etc. I guess it can be fun as
a tourist to go and see the fake one, but to those who want real history and life don't waste your money on coca-cola castles.
@40Pacino We view him as a hero because if it wasn't for him we would have been part of Turkey now, since the Ottoman Empire tried to conquer us, but he managed to take out an empire that was almost 5 times our size. He did that by doing some very crazy things, but we are thankful because we still have our culture and our land because of him.
Great video, thanks!
he wasn't a good man perhaps you could argue that his reasons for doing what he did were justifiable, but he was monster.
Vampire is real in the old days if people think ids fake then how the olden days see them it’s real but no more but it might be some left in dark place
This summer I am going to make a documentary about Dracula and it will be way better than this one. UA-cam-mail me if you have any ideas.
I wish that I could go to hungary and see dracula's castle myself.
I'm sure Count Dracula would have been all for being sponsored by Coca Cola...
@C12830772 I can understand that Romanians might have a sour outlook on the Stoker novel, but consider would Vlad Tepes be known by very many people outside of Romania in the 21st century aside from some historians if it wasn't for Bram Stoker's novel?
the host looks exactly like dracula in cartoons ^^
haha im sorry but everytime I listen to the man representing the transylvania society talk, all I can think about is him being a vampire, or not leading on completely what he knows.
If you tell Dracula i said Hi!
@eustiutot I don't think Romania is the "vampire country" other Eastern European had vampire myths too. I guess there's more to Romanian myth than vampires. I guess Bram Stoker just picked the country randomly. Ever played Castlevania? Yea, I think he was quite that rich actually^^.
anyone from this world is welcome in my beautiful country , Romania , but not hungayrians..Hotel Dracula is in my county..Bistritz..wild and beautiful zone..if you want to visit it contact me :))
@nikkijaneallison I love Romania as well, I know it has some bad images from people, and there is much wrong with every country- none are perfect. I have found Romanians to be smart, friendly, and all around wonderful. They go out or their way to help Americans by speaking English and they are very adept at the language. Bram Stoker never set foot in the country, but I don't want to go into that here. Love Romania!
@MBlionz Oh, please. Salah al Din was defeated by exhaustion. But he loved and admired King Richard.
good
which castle do you speak of?
7:10 anyone else think something was going to jump out at them?
"Uuuuhhmm ? is that a curse ?
He said this:"let everyone be their own judge" that's why he kiilled "inocent" people....they broke the law noing the will be killed.....
For God's sake, the impaling was a common execution method in the era, and the brutality and cruelty of which Vlad the Impaler is accused, was pure propaganda, to justify his arrest by king Matias Corvinus, King of Hungary (he arrested Vlad because he had received orders from the Pope to help the Wallachian prince against the Ottomans - which King Matias did't even want to hear of). Even Baba Novac, one of Michael the Brave's generals, was impaled by Hungarians near the city walls of Koloszvar!!
Am vrea noi sa avem un Vlad Tepes in tara noastra si acuma....
@guevarrajustine but don't be confused.in those countries there are also romanians that work hard and honest to earn a living for their families back home.the gypsies we are talking about have a darker shade to their skin,kinda like the indians.if people weren't ignorant they would realise the difference and not hate romania or romanians,and hate only the real bad guys-those gypsies
@MBlionz Why does this matter so much to you? Though the past is fascinating, it is the past and these are modern times. We were in the wrong, but the Crusades were at least five hundred years ago. Can't we just bury the hatchet?
@DACIAN77RO ..Domnul meu, cu tot respectul dar cred ca dumneavoastra va aflati intr-o mare confuzie. Am vazut ce ati raspuns unui interlocutor....nu aveti dreptate. Faptul ca lui Tepes i s-a atribuit numele de drac sau`` draculea`` sau dracul cel mic din punct de vedere al unui diminutiv popular, se datoreaza faptului ca a mostenit aceasta porecla de la tatal sau Vlad, al ll-lea fiu al lui Mircea cel Batran, fiu care intr-adevar facea parte din ordinul Dragonilor.
Their talking about Vlad's real castle.
@Revengeofthestorm61 yes friend...because he was betrayed...but you remember what happend to turks??....he became legend.
Adică înainte drac însemna dragon şi nu diavol ca acum ?
@floodkhan Not at all, is romania under islamic rule or an islamic state, nope so in the long run he did his job what he was set out to do
i think you know that dracula isant real this is a beautiful country and im proud im a part of it but thi will go to hell because of the new generation i love our old villages this video has actualy make me cry so sad so sad
@ClarnissaSalvatore well thank vlad for that
no they aren't, "they" are the same person
@sebythg what happened to your beloved prince in the end my friend? he has lost his head, he was decapitated and brought to Ottoman Emperor.
one of my outstanding qualities ^_^
Imi place Romania !
@JD1730 prietene ai baut ceva?
wow
the poienari castle belong to vlad dracula
@nags2bitches are you saying that dracul doesnt mean the devil ? im a romanian and i can assure you it means exactly that
You guys hellsing is the bast if you like draclua hellsing is the show to see
it actually was not... the turkish tried to take it over but vlad draculea III. could avend this for a long time..
hotel transylvania
I will go that place then i want to be a vampire
Vlad was a good leader maybe, i dont know but he did bad things. He was torturing ottomans. Because they didnt like each other and the other politics stuff. I think you care about it so much , guys! Take it easy...
lol whne was di documentary relesead 2000? lol
lol
It's funny how you speak about ignorant Americans who "create a mith (myth) out of their ignorance." I find your entire argument laughable as Bram Stoker (the creator of the Dracula character and myth) was Irish, not American. Why not arm yourself with facts rather than your own ignorance before you begin casting accusations.
it's a latin language,like portughese
@Kangsryche ,my friend is better if you read some REAL history about Vlad Tepes before writing a s### comment!
Ala vorbeste ca Dracula.
wtff? haha
lol @ arinin :)))
Sometimes I feel like Dracula. I wish I had bigger fangs and could suck blood to extend my life. That would be awesome.
@comedyman112 It means devil by association in exactly the same way that the 'serpent/dragon' of the bible is also the devil. Dracul means dragon which in turn means snake which in turn is the biblical satan, hence dracul is used as a name for the devil in his guise as a dragon/snake. vlad lll got called dracul/dragon becaue he belonged to the Order of the Dragon and wore its sigil.
anybody know if there is a party there on halloween?
Iam the I am first and the last of my kind enrique hernandez
duuuude!
im from romania.
drac=demon
and dreacula its fake :P
Mă tu ai plecat de mic din România din câte am înţeles, eu stau aici de 20 de ani(întreaga viaţă) şi îţi spun sigur ca vorbitor de română de zi cu zi că în nicio regiune a ţării drac nu înseamnă dragon, drac înseamnă diavol, românii zic la dragon ca şi vorbitorii de limbă engleză... dragon. Că o fi însemnat şi altceva sau că însuşi titlul e o traducere eronată(ar fi penibil) e altă povestea.
Într-adevăr, aşa e... am aflat abia după şi e mai logic ca tine, îmi cer scuze vorbeşte gura fără mine uneori, sal.
@CozmoLeo
He punished people for not being Christians, and I'm not talking about the Muslims who invaded Romania, because obviously war is cruel. He also systematically eradicated the old boyar class of Wallachia. Seems fair to you? Not to mention the fact multiple sources confirm that he took sadistic pleasure in torturing people.
no it isn't ... it was called so just because he was brutally killing bad people by using a special method : he pushed 'em on a sharp piece of wood.. that type of wood = teapa (its a romanian popular word but i don't know if it is recognized by dictionaries)
From "teapa" - "tepes" (which is kind of an adjective of the word "teapa")
@gogoasacenusie I have no doubt about the second language @ Microsoft being Romanian, my BF is Romanian and is a pc genius...I would LOVE to visit, and you are all welcome to visit here as far as I'm concerned!!!!!!!! Thanks for the "juicy" offer...tee heehee.....:P
So this Dracula theme park,
Is it something like Euro Disney but on the scale of a house of horrors in a makeshift castle like Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty's castle?
That really sounds depressing.
@CozmoLeo Intelligent? Most certainly. One of the problems is bad press, but a culture that produced Eliade, Cioran, Tzara and so many literary giants is hardly the product of gypsies.
wtf are you saying?
dracula is just the nickname of an past romanian king : vlad Tepes
the name comes from "drac" wich means in romanian Devil
what order of the dragon?
Hmmm, the tale of Dracula was based on the vampire myth, not the other way around and of course, dracul means dragon not devil so Dracula was son of the dragon.
@ClarnissaSalvatore and whats wrong with that? I was born in Transylvania (now Australian) and all my friends think it's awesome...bit of a gimmick really :)
He was true Vampire like Ryan Reynolds true Deadpool person in real life
@nags2bitches Oops, make that Vlad lll's father, Vlad Dracul who was in the Order. Vlad lll was called 'Dracula' meaning Son of the Dragon.
@CozmoLeo Cu tot respectul ....singurul care a apartinut Ordinului dragonilor(ordin cavaleresc) a fost tatal lui Vlad Tepes , iar faptul ca i se spunea dracul i se datoreaza armurii pe care o purta si care a dus la aceasta porecla,Vlad tepes fiul lui Vlad care era al ll-lea mostenitor la domnie, primul fiind printul Mihail fratele mai mare, a mostenit porecla de ``drac`` de la tatal sau!....Intr-adevar sunt mai mullte teorii....
Partea proasta este ca şi peste hotare susţin sus şi tare, prin intermediul profesorilor sau unor ameţiţi care rescriu istoria pentru occidentali, ca Ardealul a fost al lor mai întâii. Am avut o astfel de profesoara de origine maghiara la facultate in Canada şi ce mi-au auzit urechile acolo... Venea cu hărţi dinaintea Trianonului şi le arata ignoranţilor de canadieni cum arata Ungaria înainte vreme. Degeaba le spuneam eu ca nu-i asa, ea era profesoara şi, deci, avea autoritate in materie. :-(
that giude sure has the perfect accent..sounds exactly like dracule
Actually Transylvania belonged to Great Hungary until Trianon 1920.It's a beautiful ancient Hungarian territory.
Don't mind him, he is one of the few Romanians whom most likely doesn't even have a clue of his own history, let alone to know Stoker's nationality. I myself am Romanian and don't have anything against Stoker's novel, quite the opposite! The only thing that bothers me is that most people see Vlad as this pshyco, but that's only because of the Hungarians traitors whom are always making fake stories and trying to rewrite history in their favour. Till this day day dream of Transilvania!
Real Vlad Tsepesh was a hero and a defender of his beloved land from the Turks. He WAS extremely cruel on his oponents, as well on the Turks (he used to torture and to slay Turkish officers & soldiers captured in Romanian mountains after their conquering attempts), but that is not the reason for anybody to depict him as a son of the Satan.
People from Balkan remember A LOT of monstruous cruelty from their islamic oppressors, so we surely won't commiserate those victims of count Dracula!! >:)))
@40Pacino
Well the Confederate States sure viewed Abe Lincoln as a tyrant, and John Wilkes Boothe shot him and said something like "Thus always to tyrants."
"Honest Abe" wasn't against slavery at all but as the war progressed he saw it fit to free them to create chaos in the south where many blacks who were close to union lines fled. Thus began the great myth that the whole american civil war was about slavery which is nonsense.
Change Abe with George Washington instead.
@40Pacino
Yup.. he was a big "Law and Order" guy. Basically if he lived now..... well.. let's say there wouldn't be very many people clogging up the prison system or illegally entering the country. (grin) Good symbol of this.. if any can imagine it. He placed a priceless gold chalice in every town square. They remained there for his entire reign. The story goes that many drank from them freely.. but NO one would dare steal one.
Imagine that today.
i studied turcology and i can say dracula and Mehmed II grew up together,they were like brothers,they are even legends that they are bloodbrothers.and as dracula became the prince in wallachia,mehmed II sent him a letter,that he should stop to murders and asked him to come back to istanbul..and yes as everyone knows in the end dracula was killed and his head was sent to his best fried/enemy to mehmed the conquerer of istanbul
@crystalbratcher30 He was not an evil man, what you heard is pure propaganda, to justify his arrest by King Matias Corvin, king of Hungary (who received orders from the Pope to help the Wallachian prince against the Ottomans, but tried to find reasons for refusing - so he accused Vlad of heresy and the cruelty we believe today as being true). In fact, impaling was a common execution method in those times. Evan Baba Novac, one of Michael the Brave's generals was impalied by Hungarians in 1601!
@highwaystar1417 Romanian culture and Gypsy culture have little in common.Romanian culture is a very old European sedentaric culture,with richest folklore in Europe,beautiful hand-adorned costumes, medieval religious painting and arhitecture,old or modern European philosophy,history,art and literature.It's a vast topic.Gypsy culture is a nomadic subspecie of culture,with different influences from country to country,the most obvious print in Gypsy culture being the oriental(turkish) touch.
@floodkhan Here is muhammad in his own words saying he died from the poison, and this is narrated by aisha, unless your a shia please dont say this is false narration, although even shia believed muhammad died from poison..
Narrated 'Aisha: The Prophet in his ailment in which he died, used to say, "O
'Aisha! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison."
i never heard about draculestilor ... well.. as far as i know.. the order of the dragon.... which was named in vlads days " draculea" was a tradition that began even before his"daddy" was born =)
by the way, his "daddy" was a cruel bastard who sent both of his sons, vlad and his younger brother to the turkish sultan of the osmanian imperio.. his younger brother soon gave in, and became favorite of the sultan.. vlad fought and was being tortured..just as he did to others lateron..
Read the book Dracula! At that time Transylvania was the part of Hungarian Kingdom. And Dracula is a fictional character, he's just based on Vlad Ţepeş. Bram Stoker got the idea of count from stories of Tepes and Erzsébet Báthory, that was told him by Armenius Vámbéry. It's like Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was based on the personality of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, but Victor Franenstein is not English. And in the book count Dracula tells, that he is Székely, so ZoltanKH was right.
@EUmpb yea i know i Romania didnt exist ...but i put ''romanian(walachian)'' :D...yes and he fight for hungarian crown...but they never helped him!!!!....he smashed the otomans ALONE!!! thats why he became legend....he never benn helped by some1..in military expeditions vs turks..only on politic plan was helped by Stefan The Great(ruler of Moldavia) they were relatives.
@Kangsryche at least i know enough english to reply to someone like you.your blog on 'youtube' is spot on.well done!!! you describe yourself very well and if you know so much about Vlad Tepes i presume you are smart enough to reply in romanian language.dont bother to reply cos i will ignore your reply.WORK ON your IQ
well guys Vlad Tepes has nothing to do with vampire- Dracula- is from Dracul- Familia Draculestilor after his daddy and tho this story about vampires has to come from somewhere right? well I did some research and I found out that there was a contess a long time ago . . . if you wanna know more reply or send me a comment ;)
Same here ..hehehehe.. I'm from Canada...In general people are nice...and usually i'm spending time showing them our culture, the good stuff. One is having fun with plum brandy...and wash everything with beer...then after few minutes i am alone. SANATATE!