Following the Fall of Constantinople and the conquest of Trebizond and Morea, the Ottoman Empire faced fierce resistance in ...

The ruthless brutality of Vlad III of Walachia, forged by the 15th-century clash between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, would partly inspire Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel ...

Prince Of Wallachia (Switch eShop Game) first released 17th Apr 2025, published by SP. - On June 12, 1444, Vlad the Impaler and his brother Radu the Handsome ...

On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined later by 5,000 corsairs (North African privateers).

Among these figures there is always one little known, or unknown to the general public, but who in Albania is considered a national hero for restraining the powerful Ottoman Empire, slowing down the ...

A fabricated image . The poem Turčín Poničan by Samo Chalupka, one of the prominent figures of the Slovak Romantic movement in the 19th century, is still widely known today and read by pupils in ...

Romania shares a long border with Ukraine and has been a staunch supporter of Kyiv since the full-scale invasion in 2022. It has provided a Patriot missile defence system as well as financial support.

Vlad III belonged to the House of Drăculești, a powerful dynasty that ruled Wallachia. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was a member of the Order of the Dragon, a knightly group sworn to defend Europe from ...

The Ottomans slaughtered the Sacred Band, a force mainly composed of volunteers and students of the Greek communities of Moldavia, Wallachia and Odessa. Diplomatic and ideological issues regarding the ...

Vlad III of Wallachia Hagyakborn in Sighisoara in 1431 and died in Bucharest between 1476 and 1477, was a Romanian aristocrat, prince of Wallachia in the 15th century. He reigned in three different ...