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Vlad the Impaler's reign was dominated by conflicts with the Ottoman Empire, hence the necessity to permanently watch over and protect the southern border, the Danube, made him stay in the fortified town on the Dâmbovița banks. He issued a Latin document on 13 June 1458 from the area of current Bucharest.
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 ]
Internal records attest to the princely court during Mircea the Elder's reign in 1417-1418. Archaeological findings support this, dating back to his time. Expansion of fortifications occurred half a century later when Târgoviște became the sole Wallachian capital , possibly during Vlad Dracul or Vlad the Impaler's reigns. It's confirmed that ...
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Vlad III the Impaler was killed on the battlefield against the Ottomans near Bucharest in 1476. The Turks decapitated his corpse, preserved his head in honey and sent it to Constantinople, where the Sultan had it displayed on a stake as proof that the Impaler was finally dead. The exact location of his body remains unknown.
Witches' Pond – According to the legend, the pond located in Boldu-Crețeasca Forest, having a diameter of only 5 m, is the place where Vlad the Impaler was beheaded. [18] It is said that after the 1977 earthquake many trucks unloaded debris in the pond, with the aim of stoppering it. Within weeks, the debris disappeared in its waters ...
No wonder he was the inspiration for Dracula.
Two decades later, Vlad III the Impaler (1448, 1456–1462, 1476), notorious as the model for the Dracula legend, turned against the Ottoman Empire. [213] [214] He carried out a series of attacks across the Danube in the winter of 1461–1462.