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  2. Vlad the Impaler - Wikipedia

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    Vlad III is known as Vlad Țepeș (or Vlad the Impaler) in Romanian historiography. [12] This sobriquet is connected to the impalement that was his favorite method of execution. [ 12 ] The Ottoman writer Tursun Beg referred to him as Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Lord) around 1500. [ 12 ]

  3. Vladislav II of Wallachia - Wikipedia

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    On July 22, 1456, Vlad II Dracul's son Vlad III Dracula led a small army of mercenaries into Wallachia, when they were intercepted by Vladislav and his men near Târgșor. The commanders agreed to settle the dispute in single combat , so Vladislav and Dracula engaged in hand-to-hand combat in front of their hosts until Vlad Dracula struck a ...

  4. Dracula Untold - Wikipedia

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    In the 15th century, Vlad Dracula is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania.As a child, he was a royal ward of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and was trained to be a soldier in Sultan's elite janissary corps, where he became their most feared warrior, earning the moniker "Vlad the Impaler, Son of the Dragon", but became sickened by his own actions and abandoned his past.

  5. Curtea Veche - Wikipedia

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    Curtea Veche (September 24, 2011) with the bust of Vlad Țepeș Curtea Veche (the Old Princely Court ) was built as a palace or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in 1459. [ 1 ] Archaeological excavations started in 1953, and now the site is operated by the Muzeul Municipiului București in the historic centre of Bucharest , Romania .

  6. Allegory of the cave - Wikipedia

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    Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".

  7. Impalement in myth and art - Wikipedia

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    The idea that the vampire "can only be slain with a stake driven through its heart" has been pervasive in European fiction. Examples such as Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Dracula often being compared to Vlad the Impaler who killed his enemies and impaled them on wooden spikes) [1] [2] and the more recent Buffy the Vampire Slayer both incorporate that idea.

  8. Night attack at Târgoviște - Wikipedia

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    Vlad, seeing that he could not prevent the crossing, withdrew. After that the emperor crossed the Danube with his entire army and gave us 30,000 coins to be distributed among us. The Ottoman army managed to advance as Vlad Țepeș instituted a policy of scorched earth , poisoned the waters, and also created marshes by diverting the waters of ...

  9. Mircea II of Wallachia - Wikipedia

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    The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, summoned Vlad Dracul to Edirne to do homage to him in March 1442. [3] Before leaving Wallachia, Vlad Dracul appointed Mircea to rule Wallachia during his absence. [3] The sultan accused Vlad Dracul of treachery and ordered his imprisonment. [3] He also sent a force of 12,000 to invade Wallachia. [3] [4]