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• Dracula - Vlad III the Impaler

• History

• Names

• Wallachian royalty and family background

• Vlad's family

• Prince of Wallachia

• Mircea II

• Biography - Early years

• Biography - Early years

• Hostage of the Ottoman Empire

• Brief reign and exile

• Turning tides

• Main reign (1456–62)

• Mircea the Elder

• Transylvania

• Personal crusade

• Sultan Mehmed II

• The Turkish army

• In captivity

• Return to Wallachia and death

• Vlad III the Impaler's death

• Legacy

• National poet of Romania Mihai Eminescu

• The Romanian oral tradition

• The Reputation of Vlad Ţepeş

• The atrocities made by Vlad in the German stories

• The Serbian Janissary Konstantin Mihailović

• The tortures done by Ţepeş

• Impalement

• The Transylvanian city of Sibiu

• Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople

• The Ruins of Poienari Castle

• The old boyar class of Wallachia

• The German stories about Vlad Ţepeş

• The image of the Wallachian ruler

• The horror stories about Vlad

• The square of Târgovişte

• The Russian stories about Vlad Ţepeş

• The Tale about Voivode Dracula

• The vampire legend and Romanian attitudes

• Elizabeth Báthory

• A candidate for vampirism

• Tales of vampires

• Ethnic feuds between Hungarians and Romanians

• Romanian folklore

• Innsbruck's Ambras Castle

• Ţepeş' image in modern Romanian culture

• Saxon detractors

• Vlad in popular culture and in the media

• Bram Stoker's Dracula

• Mina Harker

• A brutal but tragic character

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Sultan Mehmed II

In response to this, Sultan Mehmed II, the recent conqueror of Constantinople, raised an army of around 60,000 troops and 30,000 irregulars and in the spring of 1462 headed towards Wallachia.

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror was greeted by the sight of a veritable forest of stakes on which Vlad the Impaler had impaled 20,000 Turkish prisoners.[6] With his army of 20,000–30,000 men Vlad was unable to stop the Turks from entering Wallachia and occupying the capital Târgovişte (June 4, 1462), so he resorted to guerrilla war, constantly organizing small attacks and ambushes on the Turks.

The most important of these attacks took place on the nights of June 16–17, when Vlad and some of his men allegedly entered the main Turkish camp (wearing Ottoman disguises) and attempted to assassinate Mehmed.

Unable to subdue Vlad, the Turks left the country, leaving Radu the Handsome to continue fighting. Despite Vlad achieving military victories, he had alienated himself from the nobility, which sided with Radu the Handsome. By August 1462 Radu had struck a deal with the Hungarian Crown. Consequently, Vlad was imprisoned by Matthias Corvinus.

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