The legend suggests that Vlad III was not killed in battle, as commonly believed. Instead, he was captured by the Ottomans and later freed by his daughter.

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Following the Fall of Constantinople and the conquest of Trebizond and Morea, the Ottoman Empire faced fierce resistance in the Balkans. In 1462, Vlad Tepes of Wallachia defied Sultan Mehmed II with a ...

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Witch trials were not unique to Salem. Europe had undergone a witch-hunting craze from the 15th to the 18th centuries, prosecuting an estimated 100,000 people—mostly women—for accusations of ...

Dracula Untold, directed by Gary Shore, is about a vampire gifted with immense powers. However, it departs from Bram Stoker's classic origin story to show Dracula from a different perspective.

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The first trailer for Luc Besson's adaptation of Dracula is now online, and it finds X-Men: First Class actor Caleb Landry Jones putting his own unique spin on the legendary vampire ...

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We see him on the battlefield, which may very well be a nod Vlad the Impaler – the real-life warlord and military leader who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. According to the novel, ...