Vlad Dracula

Vampire movies and Bram Stoker`s novel, although fictitious, spread his fame.
Leader against Turkish expansion during the fifteenth century.
Adolescent years spent as hostage in Turkey.
Dark Prince of Romania, ruling Wallachia during three intervals of time.

Devil to many, hero to others.
Revenge sought for the assassinations of father and brother.
A builder of many churches and monasteries.
Casket, after his death, was buried under a church but not found in later searches.
Unfairly impaled thousands of subjects for little or no wrongdoing.
Legendary figure of Romanian folklore.
Assassinated or accidentally killed in battle by own soldiers.
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