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Ruins of Poenari Castle, the scene of a popular tale about Vlad Vlad the Impaler and the Turkish envoys, painting by Theodor Aman. The Cantacuzino Chronicle was the first Romanian historical work to record a tale about Vlad the Impaler, narrating the impalement of the old boyars of Târgoviște for the murder of his brother, Dan. [179]
A rarely-seen Turkish film based on the 1928 novel Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Voivode) by Ali Riza Seyfi, which is more or less a translation of Stoker's novel. Both the novel and the film make an explicit connection with the historical Vlad the Impaler. This is possibly the first film to depict Dracula with elongated canines. The Return of Dracula
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 ...
Vlad Drăculea, or Vlad the Impaler, was a famously ruthless and brutal 15 th century monarch who was known for his unrelenting defense of Wallachia, which was located right next to Transylvania ...
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.
The two leaders fought a series of skirmishes, the most notable one being the conflict where Vlad attacked the Turkish camp in the night in an attempt to kill Mehmed. The assassination attempt failed and Mehmed marched to the Wallachian capital of Târgoviște , where he found a few men with cannons.
Martin portrayed the title character Vlad Dracula in the USA film Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula. The film was shot in 2000 on authentic locations in Romania and tells the story of Prince Vlad III Dracula, "the Impaler" (1431–1476), who inspired the name of Bram Stoker's fictional vampire count.
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.