He made several promotional TikTok videos of himself that appeared to be inspired by Vladimir V. Putin’s flamboyantly macho ...

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.

Maybe it's time to explore that past. The story of the real Dracula begins in Wallachia, present-day southern Romania, where ...

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 ...

Think of Romania, and if anything ... Transylvanian Alps and blood-curdling tales of Dracula (or for the more historically precise of mind, Vlad the Impaler). The shadow of Vlad and the fact ...

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 ...

Controversy abounds if Stoker used Prince Vlad III of Romania as a model for his Count Dracula — some experts say he did not, and some he did. So, let the experts battle this one out ...

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 ...

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 ...