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		Vlad III Dracula (Also known as Vlad Ţepeş /tse'pesh/ in Romanian or Vlad the Impaler) born November/December, 1431 - died December 1476, and reigned as Prince of Wallachia 1448, 1456-1462 and 1476.
		Vlad Dracula was 13, and for the next four years he was held in the Ottoman Empire as a hostage.
		Vlad Dracul was summoned to join the crusade, and as a member of the Order of the Dragon he could not refuse outright, but, not wishing to anger the captors of his younger sons he sent his eldest son Mircea in his place.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vlad-Tepes (1727 words)

	Vlad Tepes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad Dracula - Vlad the Impaler - the true story of Vlad the Impaler, the prince who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula character.
		Vlad Dracula Biography - an intriguing figure in the fifteenth century.
		Vlad Tsepesh AKA Dracula: The Man, The Myth, The Vampire - background information on the Wallachian ruler from which Bram Stoker and Jeanne Kalogridis drew inspiration.
	www.pitt.edu /~slavic/courses/vampires/images/vlad/vlad.html (111 words)

	Vlad Tepes Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad II (born c. 1390) was an illegitimate son of Prince Mircea the Old, brought up at the court of King Sigismund of Hungary.
		Vlad Dracul was in Transylvania attempting to gather support for his planned effort to seize the Wallachian throne from the Danesti Prince, Alexandru I. The house where Dracula was born is still standing.
		Vlad was forced to renew that tribute and from 1436-1442 attempted to walk a middle coarse between his powerful neighbors.
	www.colorfulimaginations.com /encyclopedia/Vlad_Tepes (8521 words)

	VLAD TEPES - The Historical Dracula
		Vlad III’s father thus came to be known as "Vlad Dracul," or "Vlad the dragon." In Romanian the ending "ulea" means "the son of".
		Vlad III was born in November or December of 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara.
		Vlad had the woman’s breasts cut off, then she was skinned and impaled in a square in Tirgoviste with her skin lying on a nearby table.
	www.donlinke.com /drakula/vlad.htm (5641 words)

	Vlad Dracula/Tepes - The Impaler
		Vlad the Impaler -Tepes (pronounced tzse-pesh) was born in the town of Sighisoara in Transylvania (now known as northern Romania) in 1431 and later ruled the area of Southern Romania known as Wallachia.
		The word "tepes" in Romanian means "impaler" and Vlad was so named because of his cruel and gruesome habit of impaling humans and leaving them to rot in the sun as a means of punishing his enemies.
		Vlad pointed out to her the husbands short caftan as evidence of her laziness and dishonesty and ordered the poor woman impaled despite her husband's protest that he was well satisfied with his wife and she certainly was not lazy.
	www.castleofspirits.com /vlad.html (2349 words)

	ipedia.com: Vlad III Dracula Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad was illegimate and was brought up at the court of King Sigismund of Hungary.
		To show his gratitude he sent his two younger sons, Vlad and Radu the Handsome to Adrianople, Vlad was 13 and for the next four years he was held in Turky as a hostage.
		Vlad was summoned to join the crusade, and as a member of the Order of the Dragon he could not refuse outright, but, not wishing to anger the captors of his younger sons he sent his eldest son Mircea in his place.
	www.ipedia.com /vlad_iii_dracula.html (1101 words)

	Vlad Dracula Biography
		Vlad Tepes was born in November or December 1431, in the fortress of Sighisoara, Romania.
		Vlad became quite known for his brutal punishment techniques; he often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs.
		Vlad, who was definitely not the kind of man to kill himself, managed to escape the siege of his fortress by using a secret passage into the mountain.
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	About Vlad the Impaler (the man not the hamster)
		Vlad decided that the only way to oust the Turks, and become the true prince of Wallachia, was to enlist the help of John Hunyadi- the very man who had murdered his father and brother.
		Vlad immediately ordered his guards to sieze them, and then stated that if they were so unwilling to part with the turbans, that they should be nailed to their heads.
		Vlad was hit by a second tragedy as he and his servants escaped through the forest on horseback-- the servant who was carrying Vlad's infant son dropped him.
	hamsterrepublic.com /html/vladhistory.html (1683 words)

	Dracula - The Truth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad Tepes Dracula is the son of Vlad Dracul, one of the illegitimate sons of the Mircea the Old.
		The name of Vlad Dracula is connected to the day of 8 February 1431, when his father, Vlad I, was invested by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxemburg with the Order of Dragon (Ordinis Draconis) for having protected the catholicism against the Turcs.
		In the Romanian historiography, Vlad II, is generally known as Tepes / tsepesh / which means the Impaler; it is a nickname assigned to him in the 15th century, as a consequence of his preference for impalement as a way of punishing guilty people.
	www.net4u.ro /dracula/truth.html (1131 words)

	The History of Vlad Dracul and Vlad Tepes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad Dracul was born the illegitimate son of Prince Mircea cel Batrin, a member of the Basarabs, the most famous ruling family in Romania.
		Vlad Tepes was born in Sighisoara, a town in an area which was known as Transylvania.
		Vlad Tepes, also known as Draculea, or son of the devil, reigned twice between 1456-1462 and in 1476.
	shrike.depaul.edu /~jmyers1/vlad.html (658 words)

	Vlad Ţepeş journey log
		Vlad Draculea was bornt in November or December 1431, in the town Sighişoara in Transylvania where his house still stands.
		Vlad Ţepeş, for political reasons, had to reject the orthodox faith for the catholic one at the end of his life (as a matter of fact, it was the only way for him to be released from Hungarian jail in Budapest where he was in custody for 12 years).
		Vlad Ţepeş himself did not used this name to designate himself, he was using his name Vlad Draculea, bust most of the today's historian's litterature, romanian, and subsequently international, keeps refering him as Vlad Ţepeş because the name Draculea would be too negatively connoted.
	www.dunwich.org /draculea/draculea.html (2094 words)

	Vlad the Impaler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian) was descended from Basarab the Great, a fourteenth-century prince who is credited with having founded the state of Wallachia, part of present-day Romania.
		As an indication of his pride in the Order, Vlad took on the nickname "Dracul." (The Wallachian word "dracul" was derived from the Latin "draco" meaning "the dragon.") The sobriquet adopted by the younger Vlad ("Dracula" indicating "son of Dracul" or "son of the Dragon"), also had a positive connotation.
		Vlad told the elders, 'The Turks have surrounded this fortress and I want you to take me across the border into Transylvania, by morning.' One of the elders who was an ironsmith said, 'I have a plan.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~emiller/VladT.htm (4182 words)

	A short biography on some of Europe's most love and hated Monarchs - Pt 1 Vlad Tepes (Dracula)
		Vlad Tepes or Dracula was born in 1431, in the fortress of Sighisoara, Romania.
		Vlad's first act of vengeance was aimed at the boyars of Tirgoviste for the killing of his father and older brother Mircea.
		Vlad became known for his brutal punishment techniques; often ordering people to be skinned, decapitated, blinded, roasted, hacked, buried alive, stabbed and blinded to name a few.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/9-7-2005-76302.asp (781 words)

	Royalty.nu - Vlad Dracula - Vlad the Impaler
		Royalty.nu - Vlad Dracula - Vlad the Impaler
		He was Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes, meaning "Vlad the Impaler." The Turks called him Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince." He was the prince of Walachia, but, as legend suggests, he was born in Transylvania, which at that time was ruled by Hungary.
		Since Vlad and Mircea were dead, and Dracula and Radu were still in Turkey, Hunyadi was able to put a member of the Danesti clan, Vladislav II, on the Walachian throne.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html (2598 words)

	Free-TermPapers.com - Vlad Tepes
		Stoker's model was Vlad III Dracula (Tepes - The Impaler), a fifteenth century viovode of Wallachia of the princely House of Basarab.
		Under this interpretation “Vlad II Dracul becomes Vlad II, the Dragon and his son, Vlad III Dracula, becomes Vlad III, the Son of the Dragon.”(Florescu Prince of Many Faces 6) .There is some confusion in the secondary sources concerning Dracula's exact title.
		Vlad Dracul was in Transylvania attempting to gather support for his planned effort to seize the Wallachian throne from the Danesti Prince, Alexandru I. The house where dracula was born is still standing in the citadel of Sighisoara.
	www.free-termpapers.com /tp/7/bqg305.shtml (6096 words)

	Vlad Tepes the Impaler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vlad was born in 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara.
		After Vlad II Dracula was murdered on the throne Vlad III Dracula took to the throne and led as Prince of Wallachia on three seperate occasions.
		Vlad usually had a horse on each leg of the victim's leg as a sharpened stake was forced into the body.
	schoolweb.missouri.edu /ashland.k12.mo.us/db/Dracula.html (661 words)

	Photographs of Vlad Tepes
		Vlad Tepes was born in the town of Sighisoara, Romania.
		Vlad was ultimately killed and decapitated by unfaithful boyars; his perfumed head sent to the Ottoman Sultan as a gift, and as appeasement.
		Just how much Stoker knew about the life and atrocities of Vlad Tepes is unclear, but he was certainly aware of Vlad from a reference in a history book obtained from the library of Whitby.
	www.donlinke.com /drakula/vlad/photos.htm (548 words)

	Vlad III Tepes: 1431-1476
		Sadly, in 1442, as the Turkish forces invaded Transylvania, Vlad II Dracul was exiled from the throne and country by the superior power Hungary, on the basis of not siding with them at the time of a previous crisis.
		The historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes, did not drink blood, nor did he fly or transform into a bat, sleep in a coffin, nor was he repelled by sunlight and garlic.
		Prior to Vlad's birth in 1431, at the request of King Sigismund I of Hungary, his father, also named Vlad, was inducted in the Order of the Dragon, a secret brotherhood of knights with the purpose of protecting and upholding the Christian faith against the Turks.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/Dracula.html (1684 words)

	Vlad Tepes
		In 1457 the armies of the Ottoman Empire under Mahomet II were on the attack and preparing to invade Europe.
		But the courageous Vlad (Stefan Sileanu) managed to put together an army and tried to unite the fallen-out country with incredible cruelty to hold his ground against the superior enemys.
		But as it tells the historical story of Vlad Tepes, which later spawned the infamous blood-sucker character, we believe that it should be of high interest for every vampire fan.
	www.vampyres-online.com /vlad.html (277 words)

	+Vlad Dracula+
		Vlad Dracula was forever immortalized in the Bram Stocker's novel Dracula.
		He was also known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler.
		Vlad Dracula was both loved and feared by his people.
	www.darkest-destruction.com /Dracula.html (860 words)

	Vlad Dracula
		Vlad III was actually the son of Dan III, who ruled from 1451-1456.
		And Vlad V Laiot was the younger brother of Vlad III, who himself ruled from 1472-76 and 1477-81, gaining control from Rodolphe IV (Vlad IV's first cousin) and retaking control after Vlad IV's death.
		Stoker's model was Vlad IV Dracula, call Tzepes, pronounced tse-pesh; a fifteenth century viovode or prince of Wallachia of the princely House of Basarab.
	roswell.fortunecity.com /seance/500/vamps/vlad/intro.html (1067 words)

	Prince Vlad Tepes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Well folks...to dig right in...Prince Vlad Tepes was also known to the peasants over which he ruled as Vlad-the-Impaler.
		Prince Vlad viewed this indignity as a great offense...and summarily had the turbans nailed into the heads of the envoys as they sank at the foot of his throne and bled to death before his eyes.
		Vlad was a versatile chap...and impaling was not his only method of execution.
	www.tyler-adam.com /236.html (412 words)

	The Historical Dracula - An Essay by Ray Porter
		Stoker's model was Vlad III Dracula (called Tepes, pronounced tse-pesh); a fifteenth century viovode, or prince, of Wallachia of the princely House of Basarab.
		The throne of Wallachia was hereditary but not by the law of primogeniture; the boyars, or great nobles, had the right to elect the voivode from among the various eligable members of the royal family.
		"Vlad Dracula: An intriguing figure in the fifteenth century", A biography of Vlad the Impaler by Benjamin Leblanc.
	www.eskimo.com /~mwirkk/castle/vlad/vladhist.html (10394 words)

	Vlad Tepes - Dracula
		Vlad was born in the town of Sighisoara in the early fourteen hundreds.
		Vlad personally led a small elite force into the Turkish camp in the hopes of taking the Sultan off guard and killing him.
		Vlad was hit by a second tragedy as he and his servants escaped through the forest on horseback-- the servant who was carrying
	www.davidstuff.com /historical/vlad.htm (2085 words)

	Castle of Vlad Tepes
		Welcome to the Castle of Vlad Tepes, I am Izros, the caretaker of this castle.
		Vlad was well known for his brutal punishment techniques; he often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs.
		But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname "Tepes" which means "The Impaler" in the Romanian language.
	www.angelfire.com /yt/VladtheImpaler (173 words)

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