Ovcharov mentioned a letter from Vlad Dracula to the King of Hungary, in which Dracula boasts about killing 410 Turks during the battle. "Some of them were probably impaled, in his style," the ...

Then, the Turks, for whom he once served as a boy soldier as tribute from his father, return to the land, threatening war. Besides their yearly tribute, the Turkish sultan wants 1,000 boys to ...

After the death of Vlad's father and his brother in 1447, the Turks freed the two hostages — and by some accounts helped engineer Vlad III's initial rise to power in 1448.

Vlad Tepes is a fascinating figure even without the fangs, and Dracula Untold works in a few interesting nuggets about the figure, such as once being a royal hostage for the Turks.Conceivably a ...

Twilight's vampires did enough damage to the undead.But at times Dracula Untold flirts with dullness so much that it might as well just stick a stake in the heart of Bram Stoker's legacy.. But at ...

In 1461 the Turks offered to meet Vlad for a peace parley; in reality they intended to ambush him. ... Dracula thrilled readers who began to speculate on the source of Stoker’s inspiration.

The original Dracula was created by author Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel of the same ... who lived at Oblucitza and Novoselo, where the Danube flows into the sea … We killed 23,884 Turks, ...

Among the many photographic marvels of “Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom”—the intimate portraiture of the little-seen lynx, ... whom we are told put 20,000 Turks on skewers, ...

The curse of the action Dracula movie remains unbroken. In this horror-comedy, Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) is trying to free himself of the co-dependent relationship he finds himself in with Count ...

In medieval times, the Romanian town of Targoviste was known as the princely capital of Vlad the Impaler of Wallachia, whose deeds gave rise to Bram Stoker's mythical vampire Dracula. Now, as ...