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He is born is Sighisoar, Wallachia in Transylvania. After his father is invested into The Order of the Dragon. From this connection his father is named "Dracul" and Vlad "Dracula" meaning Son of the Dragon.
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Vlad Dracul wen't through the trouble of assasinating his stepbrother Alexandru Aldea for the throne.
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Vlad Dracul along with his two sons, Vlad and Radu are imprisoned by the Turks.
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Vlad Tepes (Dracula) and his younger brother Radu (The Handsome) are taken as hostages by the Turks to guarantee loyalty.
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Assasinated by boyers for their semi-pro-Turkish policy. At the doings of John Hunyadi of Hungary. Hunyadi invades Wallachia and ousts the Turks. Hunyadi places Vladislav the second on the Walachian throne.
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The Sultan released Vlad and gives him an army. Radu stays with the Sultan, is converted to Islam and is loyal to the Sultan.
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Vlad is 18 at the time and is placed on the throne as the Sultans puppet ruler.
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He invades Wallachia with an Hungarian military army, ousting the Turks. Vlad Dracula flees to Moldavia for protection by his cousin, Bogdan the second (Prince Stephan).
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Constantinopal falls. Prince Stephan is assasinated and Dracula flees to Hungary. He gets pardoned by Hunyadi and is put forward as the Hungarian candidate for the throne of Wallachia.
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Hungary invades Serbia to drive the Turks out, and Vlad Dracula simultaneously invades Wallachia. Both campaigns were successful. Vladislav the second is executed and Dracula obtains the throne for the second time at the age of 25. His reign of terror begins here.
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Vlad Dracula has 30,000 Boyars and merchants kille, mostlty by impalement. Others, mostly the Nobles where put to slave labour in rebuilding Vlad Dracula's castle.
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Vlad Tepes had a successful campaign against the Turkish settlements along the Danube, Summer retreat to Tirgoviste.
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Just before the battle at Dracula's castle, his Wife commits suicide by jumping into the Arges River below the castle instead of surrendering to the Turks. Dracula flees to Transylvania to begin a 13 year imprisonment in Hungary. The Turks leave Wallachia and put Vlad's younger brother Radu on the throne as a vassal.
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Vlad Tepes is converted and takes a Hungarian Nobelwomen as a wife to get out of prison and to become a candidate to his throne.
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Vlads brother, Radu The Handsome is deposed by Barasab the Old, a member of the Hungarian Danesti clan.
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1474-1475, Vlad invades Walachia with the help of Transylvania and Modavia, obtains the throne for the third time.
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The Turks attack again and Vlad Tepes at age 46, is killed fighting near Bucharest. Sultan Mehmed the second then displays Vlad's head on a pike in Istanbul to show he is really dead.
