@echoonomad: Vlad III. Prince of Wallachia. Born around 1431 in Transylvania. As a child he and his younger brother were sent as political hostages to the Ottoman court. Years living among the very empire that would one day be his greatest enemy, in a captivity that historians believe shaped him permanently. He came to power in Wallachia, a small principality squeezed between the Ottoman Empire and the kingdoms of Christian Europe. Surrounded by enemies on every side. Hungarian nobles. Ottoman armies. His own brother working against him. The Wallachian boyars, the nobility who had murdered his father. He dealt with all of them the same way. Ruthlessly. He used impalement as his signature punishment, and that is where his name comes from. The stake driven through a victim, the body left on display as a warning to anyone watching. He reportedly varied the height of the stake by the rank of whoever he was punishing. When Sultan Mehmed II, the same Sultan who conquered Constantinople, marched into Wallachia with a massive army, he found something waiting for him. Rows of impaled bodies stretching across the landscape. A deliberate, calculated message. Mehmed reportedly turned his army around. #vladtepes #dracula #vladtheimpaler #romanianmusic #medieval

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