well...i m from romania ( one east european state near Hungary,Ukraine and Bulgaria...it opens to the Black Sea as well) and niether of all these stories about Dracula aren t true.This is the true history about our country brand (it is a brand ..u wanna accept it or nor )
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (in Romanian Vlad Ţepeş pronounced [ˈvlad ˈt͡sepeʃ]), or simply Dracula (1431 – December, 1476), was a Wallachian (present-day southern Romania) voivode. Vlad the Impaler is known for the exceedingly cruel punishment he imposed as ruler of Wallachia; however, the people of Romania refer to Vlad as a savior to their nation and continue to justify his method of torture as not uncommon for that period in history.
In the English-speaking world, Vlad III is perhaps most commonly known for inspiring the name of the vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
His Romanian surname "Drăculea" means "Son of the dragon" and is derived from his father's title, Vlad the Dragon; the latter was a member of the Order of the Dragon, created in Serbia prior to the battle of Kosovo (1389), and re-instituted by Emperor Sigismund in 1408. The word "Dracul" means "the Devil" in modern Romanian but in Vlad's day also meant "dragon" and derives from the Latin word "Draco", also meaning "dragon".
The people of Wallachia gave Vlad II the surname "Dracul". His son Vlad III would later use the surname "Drăculea" in several documents. Through various adaptations ("Draculea", "Drakulya") Vlad III eventually came to be referred to as "Dracula".
His post-mortem moniker of "Ţepeş" ("Impaler") originated in his preferred method for executing his opponents, impalement, as popularized by medieval Transylvanian pamphlets. In Turkish, he was known as "Impaler Prince". Vlad was referred to as "Dracula" in a number of documents of his times, mainly the Transylvania Saxon pamphlets and "The Annals of Jan Długosz".
The castle he was living it s not for sale and of course it s not haunted.And the guy never had dinners in a room fullfiled with burning people . Vlad was just an christian hero to us.