The Most Famous Vampire! Dracula in the Ottoman Empire
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what's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of dracula the blood-sucking vampire you know from the movies right let me tell you something that you will be shocked about in reality dracula was actually a very violent and bloodthirsty person who waged war against mammoth the conqueror and died hard to believe isn't it but it is indeed the truth dracula's actual name was vlad however he was later known as dracula his father was dracul he ruled vallachia which was in the south of modern-day romania murad ii started a campaign towards conquering europe the principality of wallachia was forced to make peace since it didn't have enough strength to withstand the ottomans and along with
that the two sons of the ruler were also given to the ottoman sultanate the two children were sent to ediren to be schooled one of them was vlad and the other radu vlad is the child that we know as dracula his father's nickname was dracul which in romanian means satan vlad's nickname dracula means the son of dracul in other words the son of satan after listening to this story i'm about to tell you let's see if he deserves his nickname or not so the two brothers arrived in the city of ederne that's where they put vlad through a special education program murad the first wanted the romanian child to have a perfect education hence he had him schooled with prince mehmed prince mehmed went through
years of rigorous training with his romanian friend together they were taught by the most distinguished instructors in foreign languages swordsmanship horseback riding and the subtleties of government and in those years the two romanian brothers learned about islam thus dracula's brother radu decided to convert to islam he memorized the quran and decided to learn more about islam although vlad also examined the quran he did not become muslim after receiving the necessary training vlad returned to his home country but radu decided to stay during this time the family of these two brothers were killed by assassins and dracula was the sole heir he promised loyalty to the ottoman sultan and went
on to become the ruler of his country meanwhile mehmed the conqueror became the ottoman sultan and conquered istanbul dracula took his father's place his sense of revenge flared up his first order was to kill anyone who might have been involved in the killing of his parents time passed everything was going well at first but then dracula started to evade paying taxes to the ottoman sultanate and also started to break his promises finally he decided to rebel against the ottoman sultanate more openly dracula became more of an evildoer and started to kill the ottoman soldiers in the region one by one and those who opposed him he had them impaled walaki and moldavia started to bleed under
dracula's tyrannical rule one example of this is dracula realized that there were many poor people in his country and invited them to dinner he fed them all to their hearts desire and then asked them how else can i help you wouldn't you want to get rid of this pain of poverty they said yes all at once upon hearing this dracula had the doors and windows locked and set the house which was full of helpless people on fire the ottoman sultanate sent its ambassadors to find out what was going on they told dracula to pay taxes and not to be disloyal dracula responded by saying if you want to talk with me take off your turbans in return they said no we won't take them off for someone like you he
asked them again however they objected to his request upon this dracula hammered those turbans on their heads with nails in this way he killed them all this was the beginning of a war as soon as mahmoud the conqueror heard the news about his ambassadors he launched a campaign with an army of two hundred thousand dracula knew the tactics of the ottoman army by heart he knew exactly how to inflict the most damage and how to defend himself he divided his army into squads as guerrilla tactics and scattered them in different places the main purpose of this technique was to inflict maximum damage rather than winning the war they killed the ottoman soldiers they captured in the mountains one by one
and impaled them on stakes as mehmed the conqueror approached the capital his heart broke at the site he witnessed in a forested area stretched along 1.5 kilometers more than 20 000 soldiers were impaled there were those who were still alive those who were dying and those who cried out in pain it was like hell on earth mahmoud the conqueror who saw that his troops sent on ahead were impaled was demoralized never mind twenty thousand muslims even if he had seen a single innocent person like this how would he have felt but the matter of fact was that there were twenty thousand innocent people that were impaled the ottomans came down on dracula but he hid in his fortress which was on a 900
meter high steep mountain this fortress was hard to reach kind of like an eagle's nest it was not practical to try and attack it from below the siege continued for weeks mehmed the conqueror decided that it was time for him to return to istanbul he left a few troops behind and headed towards istanbul during this time dracula's wife found the atmosphere inside the fortress unbearable and hence jumped off the side of the fortress and one night vlad managed to escape to hungary hungarians who had received their share of his tyranny imprisoned vlad as soon as he arrived he spent 12 years in prison vlad who is more famously known as dracula was missing for a long time during those years things
changed in europe at last the king of hungary released him and married him to one of his relatives later he asked vlad to change his religion and he accepted that together with dracula they conquered many ottoman fortresses over the period of two years they killed many ottoman soldiers and exactly 14 years later dracula was seen in wallachia again with the support of foreign troops he gained the throne again his people after finding out that he was back were resentful of course mahmoud the conqueror was also informed about this mehmed the conqueror sent dracula's brother radu on behalf of the ottoman sultanate but he wasn't able to obtain any sort of result upon this the ottoman sultanate
assembled its soldiers in wallachia and finally ottoman troops cornered dracula in the forest of transylvania it is believed that dracula was killed there another view is that he was killed during this war by his own people dracula a person who committed such horrific acts during his reign those that no other person would even think of doing was legendarized as a vampire because of the amount of blood he shed and because of his desire to spill blood he has been the subject of many movies which era these movies originate from is unknown and forgotten in history there are many unusual events and this is one of them do you think vlad deserved the nickname dracula the son of satan and how could
it be that even though he was schooled with mehmed the conqueror he became one of his greatest enemies can atrocity shedding blood and causing oppression really delight one many questions come to one's mind i will be here with more interesting videos stay tuned you
that the two sons of the ruler were also given to the ottoman sultanate the two children were sent to ediren to be schooled one of them was vlad and the other radu vlad is the child that we know as dracula his father's nickname was dracul which in romanian means satan vlad's nickname dracula means the son of dracul in other words the son of satan after listening to this story i'm about to tell you let's see if he deserves his nickname or not so the two brothers arrived in the city of ederne that's where they put vlad through a special education program murad the first wanted the romanian child to have a perfect education hence he had him schooled with prince mehmed prince mehmed went through
years of rigorous training with his romanian friend together they were taught by the most distinguished instructors in foreign languages swordsmanship horseback riding and the subtleties of government and in those years the two romanian brothers learned about islam thus dracula's brother radu decided to convert to islam he memorized the quran and decided to learn more about islam although vlad also examined the quran he did not become muslim after receiving the necessary training vlad returned to his home country but radu decided to stay during this time the family of these two brothers were killed by assassins and dracula was the sole heir he promised loyalty to the ottoman sultan and went
on to become the ruler of his country meanwhile mehmed the conqueror became the ottoman sultan and conquered istanbul dracula took his father's place his sense of revenge flared up his first order was to kill anyone who might have been involved in the killing of his parents time passed everything was going well at first but then dracula started to evade paying taxes to the ottoman sultanate and also started to break his promises finally he decided to rebel against the ottoman sultanate more openly dracula became more of an evildoer and started to kill the ottoman soldiers in the region one by one and those who opposed him he had them impaled walaki and moldavia started to bleed under
dracula's tyrannical rule one example of this is dracula realized that there were many poor people in his country and invited them to dinner he fed them all to their hearts desire and then asked them how else can i help you wouldn't you want to get rid of this pain of poverty they said yes all at once upon hearing this dracula had the doors and windows locked and set the house which was full of helpless people on fire the ottoman sultanate sent its ambassadors to find out what was going on they told dracula to pay taxes and not to be disloyal dracula responded by saying if you want to talk with me take off your turbans in return they said no we won't take them off for someone like you he
asked them again however they objected to his request upon this dracula hammered those turbans on their heads with nails in this way he killed them all this was the beginning of a war as soon as mahmoud the conqueror heard the news about his ambassadors he launched a campaign with an army of two hundred thousand dracula knew the tactics of the ottoman army by heart he knew exactly how to inflict the most damage and how to defend himself he divided his army into squads as guerrilla tactics and scattered them in different places the main purpose of this technique was to inflict maximum damage rather than winning the war they killed the ottoman soldiers they captured in the mountains one by one
and impaled them on stakes as mehmed the conqueror approached the capital his heart broke at the site he witnessed in a forested area stretched along 1.5 kilometers more than 20 000 soldiers were impaled there were those who were still alive those who were dying and those who cried out in pain it was like hell on earth mahmoud the conqueror who saw that his troops sent on ahead were impaled was demoralized never mind twenty thousand muslims even if he had seen a single innocent person like this how would he have felt but the matter of fact was that there were twenty thousand innocent people that were impaled the ottomans came down on dracula but he hid in his fortress which was on a 900
meter high steep mountain this fortress was hard to reach kind of like an eagle's nest it was not practical to try and attack it from below the siege continued for weeks mehmed the conqueror decided that it was time for him to return to istanbul he left a few troops behind and headed towards istanbul during this time dracula's wife found the atmosphere inside the fortress unbearable and hence jumped off the side of the fortress and one night vlad managed to escape to hungary hungarians who had received their share of his tyranny imprisoned vlad as soon as he arrived he spent 12 years in prison vlad who is more famously known as dracula was missing for a long time during those years things
changed in europe at last the king of hungary released him and married him to one of his relatives later he asked vlad to change his religion and he accepted that together with dracula they conquered many ottoman fortresses over the period of two years they killed many ottoman soldiers and exactly 14 years later dracula was seen in wallachia again with the support of foreign troops he gained the throne again his people after finding out that he was back were resentful of course mahmoud the conqueror was also informed about this mehmed the conqueror sent dracula's brother radu on behalf of the ottoman sultanate but he wasn't able to obtain any sort of result upon this the ottoman sultanate
assembled its soldiers in wallachia and finally ottoman troops cornered dracula in the forest of transylvania it is believed that dracula was killed there another view is that he was killed during this war by his own people dracula a person who committed such horrific acts during his reign those that no other person would even think of doing was legendarized as a vampire because of the amount of blood he shed and because of his desire to spill blood he has been the subject of many movies which era these movies originate from is unknown and forgotten in history there are many unusual events and this is one of them do you think vlad deserved the nickname dracula the son of satan and how could
it be that even though he was schooled with mehmed the conqueror he became one of his greatest enemies can atrocity shedding blood and causing oppression really delight one many questions come to one's mind i will be here with more interesting videos stay tuned you