Some spooky history for Halloween
Walachia first had a fight on its hands against the Hungarians – however the rise of the Ottoman Empire during the 15th Century saw the region overrun by the non-white Turks. It was from this time that the famous Vlad Dracula, a prince of Walachia in 1456, emerged to become the scourge of the Turks. For a short while he succeeded in liberating Walachia from the Turks.
Although his name has been appropriated for another completely unconnected use in western literature (as a vampire), Vlad was in fact the terror of the non-white Ottoman Empire for many years, and through his sheer terrorism he inflicted some of the greatest defeats upon the Ottomans during their long reign in the Balkans. Vlad Dracula is also known as Vlad the Impaler – he earned this nickname for his habit of impaling the Turks on stakes. His father had fought the Turks along with the famous Hungarian hero, Janos Hunyadi, and in this way Dracula always kept close contact with the Hungarian court at Budapest.
When Vlad became prince of Walachia, the might of the Turks forced him to sign a treaty with the non-Whites, in terms of which he had to pay 10,000 gold ducats per year and provide a constant stream of white male babies for use in the Janissaries. When Vlad became lax in providing the required white youngsters, armed Turkish units began carrying out raids in Walachian territory. This precipitated a breakdown in the treaty between Vlad and the Turks.In 1461, Walachian soldiers took a Turkish fort called Giurgiu near the Turkish center of Nicopolis and slaughtered all the non-Whites they could find, impaling them on stakes, with the tallest stake being reserved for the Turkish governor of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1870, Hamza Pasha.
A 15th Century woodcut shows the – probably allegorical – scene of Vlad Dracula having a meal amongst the victims of his impaling activities. In one instance he impaled 20,000 Turks – the sight of the massacre so shook an invading Turkish army that they turned back rather than face the man who could do such a thing – even though, ironically, Vlad had learned the impaling trick from the Turks themselves.
Dracula continued along the Danube to the Black Sea, sending a message back to the Hungarian court that “we have killed 23,884 Turks”. Accompanying this message, Dracula sent two bags full of Turkish heads, ears and noses to underline his point.
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