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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. Impalement - Wikipedia

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    Woodblock print of Vlad III "Dracula" attending a mass impalement. During the 15th century, Vlad III ("Dracula"), Prince of Wallachia, is credited as the first notable figure to prefer this method of execution during the late medieval period, [80] and became so notorious for its liberal employment that among his several nicknames he was known ...

  4. Night attack at Târgoviște - Wikipedia

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    Vlad Țepeș had not paid the annual jizya of 10,000 ducats since 1459. In addition to this, Mehmed asked him for 1,000 boys that were to be trained as janissaries. Vlad Țepeș refused the demand, and the Turks crossed the Danube and started to do their own recruiting, to which Vlad reacted by capturing the Turks and impaling them. [10]

  5. Badass Study Suggests Vlad the Impaler Cried Actual ... - AOL

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    No wonder he was the inspiration for Dracula.

  6. 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.

  7. Crux simplex - Wikipedia

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    Executions by impalement were carried out for thousands of years before the Roman period, and also after (cf. Vlad the Impaler). It was prescribed in law 153 of the Code of Hammurabi of about 1754 BC. [22] The Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BC) impaled on long upright stakes and included illustrations of the practice in its inscriptions.

  8. Scorched earth - Wikipedia

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    Vlad the Impaler retreated to Transylvania. During his departure, he conducted scorched-earth tactics to ward off Mehmed's approach. When the Ottoman forces approached Tirgoviste, they encountered over 20,000 people impaled by the forces of Vlad the Impaler, creating a "forest" of dead or dying bodies on stakes. The atrocious, gut-wrenching ...

  9. Abhartach - Wikipedia

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    Since 1958, it has been frequently claimed that the vampiric antagonist of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was extensively based on the person of Vlad III, Voivode of Walachia, also known as Vlad Țepeș ('the Impaler') after his favoured method of punishment and execution.