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Vlad the Impaler

(c. 980–1015) prince of Walachia; called Dracula; ruled barbarously. [Eur. Hist.: NCE, 2907]

See : Cruelty

Vlad the Impaler

(in Rumanian, Vlad Tepeş; surnamed Dracula [literally, “Son of the Devil,” with reference to his father, Vlad Dracul, or Vlad the Devil]). Year of birth unknown; died 1476. Hospodar of Walachia from 1456 to 1462 and in 1476.

Vlad the Impaler struggled with the boyars over the centralization of state power. He acquired the nickname of “the Impaler” on account of his savage reprisals against his enemies, whom he impaled. To combat domestic and foreign peril, he armed the free peasants and the townsmen. In 1461, Vlad the Impaler refused to pay tribute to the Turkish sultan. In 1462 he forced the retreat of a Turkish army led by the sultan Mehmed II, which had invaded the Principality of Walachia. As a result of the treachery of the boyars, Vlad the Impaler was compelled to flee to Hungary in 1462. He again became hospodar in 1476 but was killed by the boyars.

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