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    Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, was voivode (prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476. As a boy, Vlad and his brother were held hostage by the Ottoman Empire to secure their father's loyalty. After their father and brother were murdered, Vlad broke into Wallachia with Ottoman support but was later forced to seek refuge in the Ottoman Empire and Moldavia. He later invaded Wallachia with Hungarian support and began purging the Wallachian nobility to strengthen his position. This brought him into conflict with neighboring Transylvania and attracted the attention of the Ottoman Sultan, who launched a campaign to replace Vlad with his brother due to Vlad's brutal tactics, like imp

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    Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, was voivode (prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476. As a boy, Vlad and his brother were held hostage by the Ottoman Empire to secure their father's loyalty. After their father and brother were murdered, Vlad broke into Wallachia with Ottoman support but was later forced to seek refuge in the Ottoman Empire and Moldavia. He later invaded Wallachia with Hungarian support and began purging the Wallachian nobility to strengthen his position. This brought him into conflict with neighboring Transylvania and attracted the attention of the Ottoman Sultan, who launched a campaign to replace Vlad with his brother due to Vlad's brutal tactics, like imp

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    Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș, pronunciation: [ˈvlad ˈt͡sepeʃ]) or Vlad

    Dracula (/ˈdrækjələ/ (Romanian: Vlad Drăculea, pronunciation: [ˈdrət͡ʃwlea]); 1428/31 – 1476/77), was
    voivode (or prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He was the second son of
    Vlad Dracul, who became the ruler of Wallachia in 1436. Vlad and his younger brother, Radu, were
    held as hostages in the Ottoman Empire in 1442 to secure their father's loyalty. Vlad's father and
    eldest brother, Mircea, were murdered after John Hunyadi, regent-governor of Hungary, invaded
    Wallachia in 1447. Hunyadi installed Vlad's second cousin, Vladislav II, as the new voivode.

    Hunyadi launched a military campaign against the Ottomans in the autumn of 1448, and Vladislav
    accompanied him. Vlad broke into Wallachia with Ottoman support in October, but Vladislav returned
    and Vlad sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire before the end of the year. Vlad went to Moldavia in
    1449 or 1450, and later to Hungary. He invaded Wallachia with Hungarian support in 1456. Vladislav
    died fighting against him. Vlad began a purge among the Wallachian boyars to strengthen his
    position. He came into conflict with the Transylvanian Saxons, who supported his opponents, Dan and
    Basarab Laiotă (who were Vladislav's brothers), and Vlad's illegitimate half-brother, Vlad the Monk.
    Vlad plundered the Saxon villages, taking the captured people to Wallachia where he had them
    impaled (which inspired his cognomen). Peace was restored in 1460.

    The Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II, ordered Vlad to pay homage to him personally, but Vlad had the
    Sultan's two envoys captured and impaled. In February 1462, he attacked Ottoman territory,
    massacring tens of thousands of Turks and Bulgarians. Mehmed launched a campaign against
    Wallachia to replace Vlad with Vlad's younger brother, Radu. Vlad attempted to capture the sultan at
    Târgovişte during the night of 16–17 June 1462. The sultan and the main Ottoman army left
    Wallachia, but more and more Wallachians deserted to Radu. Vlad went to Transylvania to seek
    assistance from Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in late 1462, but Corvinus had him imprisoned.

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