Is there really such a place as Transylvania?

Question

People say that the legendary Count Dracula is from a place called Transylvania, but is there really such a place? If so, what's it really like there?And how did all this talk about vampires get started,anyhow?-Steve

Answer 1

yes there is try putting transylvania into your search engine

Answer 2

First ,Transylvania is a Region of Romania. Second Count Dracula is based, on a Romanian historical figure (not a count but a King and also not a vampire but just as nasty anyway), called Vlad Tepes( The Impaler) also know (surname) as Draculea or as more common Dracula. This name means Son of the Dragon and Son of the Devil, It came from Dracul (His father's surname, he was a member of the order of the Dragon). Third the vampire folklore, usually refers to the Eastern European legends, but in truth there is tales of the dead craving blood , found in every culture around the world since ancient times.

Answer 3

Wow! Nice question I just saw this show on the History channel called "The Secrets of Vampires" anyway to answer the first question Yes there is a place name Transylvania it is in a coutry called Romanina it's in Europe I am not sure where but, that is where it's at, and they said in the show, that the myth of Vampires actually came about because of more than one person and one story, it's based on a few people in History, I wish I could tell you when this is coming back on but, what you can do is check out you local cable guide and see when it's coming back on and you will then get the complete story about Vampires, it was very interesting, enough so that I want my girls to watch it, I hope this helps, But I am sure there will be some one else that can tell you much more than I................

Answer 4

Bran Castle has been considered Dracula's Castle for years. The actual Dracula's Castle (now in ruins) was located on the Arges River in Central Romania--Vallachia Region. Its been said it was rebuilt by Vlad Tepes A.D. 1457. The castle has 135 rooms with the bathrooms being very small to where you have a hard time moving around. The guy who received the Dracula name did take the blood from his victims, but in a different manner. He'd tie his victims to a chair and have their blood drained into a 5 gallon bottle.

Answer 5

yes Transylvania exists. Count Dracula is based on a one - time hero named Va lad the Impaler.

Answer 6

Transylvania is a historical region in the center of Romania. As a political entity, Transylvania became a part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century. It then successively became an autonomous principality under Ottoman suzerainty in 1541, a part of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1711 (Austria-Hungary after 1867), and a part of the Kingdom of Romania after World War I.

In short, yes it really exists. Please check out the web site listed as my source.

Answer 7

Watch the History Channel!!!! Yes it is real yes Vampires are real and yes Transylvania is real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vampires came about b/c of two storys - Dacula and the countess Elizebeth bathory!!!!! The writer combined both stories!

http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/bathory.html

http://hjem.get2net.dk/the_cellar/bathory.htm

Most Vampires now days suck peoples energy not blood b/c of aids and most are to believed as having some mental conditions or lacking in emotion stability.

Dracula was actual a hero to that country, Romania he kept the country there's, killing off invaders and armies that wnated the country. He had strange ways yet only wanting to get his point across he was then hunted and killed and they chopped his head off...

Answer 8

Transylvania really does exist and Dracula was from that place but he didn't drink blood. He actually murdered people, he tortured people so much. From him doing these things the rumors started and therefore that is where drinking blood came from

Answer 9

Trasylvania was a region of old Europe where Romania and its surrounding countries exist today. The name "Transylvania" simply means "Through the woods".

Answer 10

Yes, there is, in Romania. There was a ruler there, Vlad the Impaler. It was said he drank the blood of his enemies, hence the Dracula stories, and left their bodies mounted on stakes around the boundaries of his land.

With a little investigation, you'll find that he was trying to keep his neighbors from invading his peoples' land and did his best to scare them off. Not to say he was a great guy, but he was trying to keep from having to go to war.

Answer 11

Yes there is such a place.
And there really was a Count Dracula too.
The vampyre legend comes from there.