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Vlad Dracula's real story.

The truth about Dracula's vampire story.

By mahmoud hakeemPublished 2 years ago 7 min read

Many of us have seen vampire films, perhaps the most famous of which is Dracula's story, and most of us believe that Dracula's character is imaginary of ancient legends, but you will be surprised to learn that Dracula is a true story of a large bloodthirsty tyrant, but with injustice and tyranny and not like vampires. History tells of a tyrant named Vlad Dracula, a ruler who fought against Muslims and committed many crimes against Muslims in the Arab Mashreq.

Dracula is so evil and bloodthirsty that many books have built stories that have come to people as fairy tales of the King of the Vampire Count Dracula, the Lord of Transylvania, with the bat wings and the terror of Borgo Bass, that the idea of a vampire came from its brutal nature.

But before his name appeared as a fantasy vampire, Dracula was the name of a real historical person, and this was Vlad III, the ruler of the Middle Ages not from Transylvania, but from neighboring Wallachia, a region of modern Romania.]1]

The reason Vlad Dracula is called Vlad the Loose

The real reason behind Vlad Dracula's reputation and fame is his amazing cruelty, some of them real, and others with exaggerated specs, known as Vlad the Prick, because of his favorite way of executing someone who bites or abuses him, but if all you know about Vlad III is that he's a vampire and he likes to fool people with sticks, there are a lot of bad things to learn about Dracula's real life.

Vlad Dracula has killed an estimated 80,000 people throughout his life, a quarter of whom have been suspended on stakes outside Targoviste. According to history, the victims of Vlad have died in countless ways, all appalling, cutting off their heads, skins, gutting them and boiling them alive.

One of the talks was that he was enjoying eating in the middle of the so-called forest, the bodies on a stake, allegedly dipping his bread in their falling blood.

Meaning Dracula's name and birth.

At the time Vlad Dracula was born in approximately 1431, he had been born centuries before the brutal conflict and cannibalism between Christians and Muslims, known as the Crusades Wars, fighting broke out in the form of what history describes as military campaigns aimed primarily at pushing Muslims from the occupied territories, or vanquishing pagan areas.

Vlad belongs to the Crusades Dragon, formed in 1408 to defend Catholicism against Ottoman Muslims and Orthodox Christians, according to the 15th century Crusade Book, whose leader was the Holy Roman Emperor King Segismund of Hungary, Sigismund focused on defeating the Ottomans, and included him in his Second Vlad war.

Dracula means the dragon, which is why it was called the death of the dragon. Vlad II was faced with Ottoman Sultan Murad II, who was so strong that he was so worried about confronting the Ottomans that he had been severely defeated by the Ottomans. This force made Vlad Dracula offer the Ottoman Sultan truce and obedience, even sending his children, including the third, as evidence of obedience.

How Vlad lived his childhood.

Even before the traitors killed his father, Vlad III tasted betrayal at an early age, where the main conflict in Vlad's life was, in fact, in most of Europe at the time, between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Muslim Empire, and both Vlad II and Vlad III spent most of their lives repelling the Ottoman raids into Europe.

In 1442, when Vlad III was only 11 years old, his father and younger brother Rado took him on a diplomatic expedition to the Ottoman Empire to meet the Ottoman Sultan, but it turned out that the trip was in fact a trap, the three were captured by Murad II, and the second was released on condition that Vlad II was left with hostages to ensure that he did not interfere with the war between the Hungarians and the Ottomans.

Vlad and Radu received their education in philosophy, science, martial arts and war, and the young Rado was ultimately sympathetic to the Turkish cause from Stockholm, but never departed from his ideas of revenge against the Ottomans.

Vlad is the son of the dragon, and it means the son of Satan.

Vlad was born in 1431 at his father &epos; s home in Transylvania (now known as Romania), but it is also possible that Vlad was born in Wallachia, the area south of Transylvania, and Vlad al-Muzaziq and his father were both princes (Vuevod, a term that means only a semi-autonomous local governor in this area).

Vlad III was indeed Dracula, his father, Vlad II, known for his honorary title Dracul, the Dragon, because he was recruited by the King of Hungary in the Dragon Medal, because he was very good at killing Turks.

Vlad III was therefore known as Drăculea, or the son of the dragon, the source of the modern name Dracula (in modern Roman the name means the son of the devil, which contributed significantly to Vlad's evil reputation).

Vlad III was the second son of Vlad II, but became a legitimate plaintiff of the throne of Wallachia, after his father was betrayed by local warlords who killed him in a swamp and tortured, blinded and buried his older brother alive.]1]

The psycho war Vlad Dracula used against the Ottomans.

Scary experimental methods included his plan and war to send men with the bubonic plague to mingle with Ottoman forces, poisoned wells, and carried out night raids.

In 1462, he had a 2,000-year-old body placed on stakes in a seemingly more psychotic act of war, and Muhammad had fled to Constantinople when he faced the mass air cemetery, which was a terrible forage for crows.

Vlad had tasted victory, fled the Ottoman families, survived the prison of his Hungarian enemies, and recovered his crown, but the Ottoman attack did not stop. In 1476, he finally found himself above his head on the battlefield, where he ended up cutting off his head.

Vlad the prick steals the throne from his cousin.

Vlad III was still imprisoned by the Ottomans when his father was betrayed by the local warlords and nobles of Wallachia in 1447, and the following year, Vlad was eager to take over his father ' s post, but the reign of Walachia's was exceeded by Vlad II ' s cousin Vladislav II, who helped kill Vlad II and was installed on the throne of Wallachia by John Honnadi, Governor of Hungary.

When Honiadi Vladislav was taken with him to fight the Ottomans in the Balkans, Vlad III infiltrated Wallachia and took over for himself at the age of 17, with his claim of military support from the Ottoman rulers along the Danube, but unfortunately Vlad returned to Wallachia after a long time, with Vlad I serving only two months as Vojvod.

Vlad, supported in his endeavors against Vladislav by Ottoman leaders in northern Bulgaria, but before his return to Wallachia, Vlad turned against his Ottoman allies in order to obtain the support of King Ladislaus V of Hungary.

Vlad III cut the head of Vladislav in one fight, the first step towards revenge for his father &epos; s assassination, and by 1456, John Honiadi had personally assigned Vlad to protect the borders of Transylvania from the Ottomans.]1]

Vlad's reign of terror.

Vlad began a bloody purge of Buyar and Wallachia in support of his authority, and invited hundreds of them to a banquet, and when he challenged his authority, he stabbed them, then stabbed their bodies on wooden stakes, which entered in their wake and came out of their mouths, and used round columns instead of sharp pillars to prolong the suffering of his victims, which is why he called him the straitjacket.

Vlad has succeeded in strengthening his authority and stabilizing Wallachia through brutal cruelty, and one of the most bloody events is that he ripped dozens of Saxon traders in the city of Kronstad who were allied with Boiar and Wallachia.

Vlad's fall for treason.

Vlad impressed many throughout Christian Europe with his victory over the Ottomans, yet it was not without challenges. While the Sultan was fleeing the land of Vlad's dead wonders, Vlad's younger brother, Radu, loyal to the Ottomans, left behind him to challenge Vlad on the throne.

Radu was able to gather a lot of support in Wallachia from the Boiar, who Vlad used to kill and deceive, and Vlad was also betrayed by his friend Matthias Corvinos.

By 1462, Vlad had wiped out almost all of his resources and livestock because of the ongoing war with the Ottomans despite receiving financial assistance from the Pope, and therefore sought help from Corvinus, but instead of Vlad, Corvinus forged the letters, making Vlad appear to be a traitor to Europe and the Christianity he then sent to the Pope.

Vlad was placed under house arrest in a palace in Hungary for 12 years, and during the exile of Vlad in Hungary, his younger brother, Radu, who took part in the Ottomans, sat on the throne of Wallachia.]1]

The end of Vlad, the prick, and his death.

When Radu died in 1475, Vlad was able to recover the throne once and for only two months, when Vlad and his team of troops were ambushed by the Ottomans as they were on their way to battle, and Vlad was killed by Basarab Layoto. Vlad ' s body was cut to pieces and his head was sent to the Sultan who put him on the doors of Constantinople as a souvenir. In 1476, Vlad Dracula ' s head was preserved in a barrel of honey.

No one knows for sure where Vlad III is buried, and some claim that he was buried in a monastery near Bucharest, while others say that his remains were placed in a different monastery near the place where he was killed.

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