does Dracula exist?

Answer 1

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ost of you ("the members of this list", R.P.'92, -Ed.) are probably aware of the fact that when Bram Stoker penned his immortal classic, Dracula, he based his vampire villian on an actual historical figure. 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. Wallachia is a provence of Romania bordered to the north by Transylvania and Moldavia, to the east by the Black Sea and to the south by Bulgaria. Wallachia first emerged as a political entity during the late thirteenth century from the weltering confusion left behind in the Balkans as the Eastern Roman Empire slowly crumbled. The first prince of Wallachia was Basarab the Great (1310-1352), an ancestor of Dracula. Despite the splintering of the family into two rival clans, some members of the House of Basarab continued to govern Wallachia from that time until well after the Ottomans reduced the principality to the status of a client state. Dracula was the last prince of Wallachia to retain any real measure of independence.

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Answer 2

Count Dracula, a fictional character in the Dracula novel, was inspired by one of the best-known figures of the Romanian history — Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) — who was a ruler of Wallachia (1456-1462).

Vlad Tepes adopted the method of impaling criminals and enemies and raising them aloft in the town square for all to see. Almost any crime, from lying and stealing to killing, could be punished by impalement.

In the beginning of 1462, Vlad launched a campaign against the Turks along the Danube River. It was quite risky, the military force of Sultan Mehmed II being by far more powerful than the Wallachian army. However, during the winter of 1462, Vlad was very successful and managed to gain several victories. To punish Dracula, the Sultan decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Wallachia. His other goal was to transform this land into a Turkish province. He entered Wallachia with an army three times larger than Dracula's. Finding himself without allies, and forced to retreat towards Tirgoviste, Vlad burned his own villages and poisoned the wells along the way, so that the Turkish army would find nothing to eat or drink. Moreover, when the Sultan, exhausted, finally reached the capital city, he was confronted by a most gruesome sight: hundreds of stakes held the remaining carcasses of Turkish captives, a horror scene which was ultimately nicknamed the "Forest of the Impaled". This terror tactic deliberately stage-managed by Dracula was definitely successful; the scene had a strong effect on Mehmed's most stout-hearted officers, and the Sultan, tired and hungry, decided to withdraw.

Answer 3

Vlad the third Ţepeş did but he was not a vampire.
He drank his enemies' blood with his family, wife
(which died from drinking too much). Everybody
thought he was a vampire. Though he died to
young. Bram Stoker inspired Vlad's
exceedingly cruel punishments.
Bram Stoker nicknamed him
Dracula after his middle
name (Vlad III Dracula
Ţepeş) after his dad
Vlad II Dracul
Ţepeş. Dracul means
Dragon Slayer and A
is the common suffix to the
noun in old Romanian meaning
son, so Dracula meant DragonSlayerSon.
What a name! Dracula was a former Prince of
Wallachia and became apart of the Ottoman Empire.
He was part Turkish so legend says, but he lived in Old
Romania (Transylvania).
P.S. To all vampire lovers on Yahoo! (R) Answers,
Dracula did not exist as a vampire, though vampires
do exist, most definitely!

Answer 4

Dracula the blood thirsty vampire, no. He was written (supposedly) based on Vlad Tepes Dracula, an actual character in history. Supposedly he drank the blood of some of his victims on the battle field, but back in that day it was common to drink or eat from your enemies, they believed that you would get their power and strength. In fact although horrific as some portray him, in Romania he is still revered as a hero for bringing peace and prosperity to their land so long ago.

Answer 5

Dracula was a fictional character based in part on a real life person who was known as Va lad the Impaler a man from Transylvania.

Answer 6

Dracula is a story based on Vlad The Impaler

Answer 7

there was indeed a count dracula but the story written by bram stoker was losely based arround the tale of vlad the impayler who drank the blood of the people he impayled the thing about the dracula family was that they had longer canine teeth than usual and that they were interbread with there cousins which left them pale and guant looking

Answer 8

yes, he lived six centuries ago in Hunedoara, Transylvania (Romania). His name is Vlad Tepes (Tzepes), and he was a prince. He killed and tortured invading Turks as he was part of a secret society named Order of Dragon for the purpose of keeping eastern europe and the holy roman empire (germany, czech, poland, italy) safe from invading arabs, persians and turks. Vampyres arose in Old Romanian and Slavic mythologies, before Bram Stoker wrote about them. Vlad Tepes was probably thought to be a vampire because of his strange ways. Even now they say his castle is unnatural. hope this helps ;)

Answer 9

The real man was a Romanian prince known as, "Vlad the Impaler," and he was said to have tortured and killed thousands, and drank their blood. Many years later, the novel, "Dracula," was written portraying him as a vampire. Hope this helps!

Answer 10

Yes, but he is a very nice old man who helps me with my math homework and loans me his lawnmower once a week to make a few bucks around the neighbor hood. He mostly takes blood from the local homeless population so the cops kinda look the other way.