Also known as Vlad III, Vlad Dracula (son of the Dragon), and—most famously—Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian), he was a brutal, sadistic leader famous for torturing his foes.

THE "true" home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had been left ...

But to bring the Romanian angle home, wall panels and decor tell the tale of the man who inspired Count Dracula: 15th-century Transilvanian nobleman Vlad Tepes, called “The Impaler” after his ...

But now it seems that Vlad the Impaler ... It was really a very magical atmosphere. Count Dracula blessed his release from the Romanian archive." The Zilbersteins were admittedly less interested ...

Dinu claims to lead a group calling itself the Vlad The Impaler Command, named after the 15th century Transylvanian nobleman who was the inspiration for Dracula. In Romania he is often associated ...

The eponymous villain of Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel Dracula was partly inspired by a real historical person: Vlad III, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia (now southern Romania), known by the ...

According to Light, Romanian authorities did not actively encourage the narrative that the castle had a strong connection to either Vlad the Impaler or Stoker's Dracula. However, the claim quickly ...

Voivode Vlad III - also known by his patronymic name Dracula derived from the Slavonic word for dragon - once ruled over Wallachia, a Romanian-speaking vassal state of the Kingdom of Hungary.

Vlad the Impaler, the fearsome Romanian ruler that inspired the story of Dracula, may have cried actual tears of blood, a new study suggests. Traces of proteins found on letters he wrote in 1457 ...

Vlad III — known as Vlad the Impaler or Voivode (Prince) Vlad Dracula — was born in Wallachia (modern Romania) some time between 1428 and 1431, and he died either in 1476 or 1477. He was the ...