Vlad III the Impaler  - Index

• 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