IULIAN ROMANIA ^^^ Vlad the Impaler also known by his patronymic name DRACULA was a romanian three-time Voivode of Wallachia ! Vlad spent much of his rule campaigning against the Ottoman Empire and its expansion. As the cognomen 'The Impaler' suggests, his practice of impaling his enemies is central to his historical reputation. During his lifetime, his reputation for excessive cruelty spread abroad, to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The total number of his victims is estimated in the tens of thousands. The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad's patronymic.At the beginning of 1462, Vlad lanced a campain against Turks along the Danube ! In the winter of 1462, Vlad crossed the Danube and devastated the entire Bulgarian land in the area between Serbia and the Black Sea. Disguising himself as a Turkish Sipahi, he infiltrated and destroyed Ottoman camps.In response to this, Sultan Mehmed II raised an army of around 60,000 troops and 30,000 irregulars,and in spring of 1462 headed towards Wallachia.Mad of rage, Mehmed II decided to invade Wallachia and turn it once for all into an Ottoman territory !!! Having no allies and an army five times lesser than the sultan's, Vlad had to retreat to Targoviste, burning down the fields and poisoning the fountains to cut off the Turks' resources. and lead a guerilla war !!!
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