Vlad Tepes - history

Most of the authorities they think that the character of Dracula in the novel of the Stoker de Bram was based on the historical figure Vlad Sods (tse-pesh pronounced), that an area of the called Balkan Mountains Wallachia in the fifteenth century governed intermittently half-full of. The names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad also called the Impaler to you.

The Sod supports of the word for "impaler" and so were coined due to the propensity of Vlad to punish to victims empalando them in stakes, then exhibiting them public to scare their supposed enemies and to notice transgressors of their final moral code. They credit to you with killing between 40,000 100,000 people in this way.
Introduction
The origin of king well-known Sigismund of "Dracula" of Hungary, that the Roman emperor did santo in 1410, founded a secret brotherly order of the called horsemen the order of the dragoon to maintain Christianity and to defend the empire against the Turks of the Ottoman. Its emblem was a dragoon, extended wings, hanging in a cross. They admitted at your service to the father of Vlad III (Vlad II) around 1431 due to its value in fighting to the Turks. From 1431 Vlad forwards II it used the emblem of the order and more ahead, like rule of Wallachia, its alesaje of the invention the symbol of the dragoon.

The word for the dragoon in Rumanian is "drac" and the "UL" is the definitive article. The father of Vlad III thus came to be known like "Vlad Dracul", or "Vlad the dragoon". In Rumanian "the ulea" conclusion means "son of". Under this interpretation, Vlad III thus felt or to Vlad Dracula, or "the son of the dragoon". (The word "drac" also means "devil" in Rumanian. Sobriquet acquired therefore a double meaning for the enemies of Vlad Sods and their father).