Was Dracula a real person?
Dracula is a fictitious character created by the British novelist Bram Stoker. Stoker drew inspiration from a Romanian prince called Vlad Dracul. Vlad led a Romanian province situated in the south of Transylvania for parts of the 15th century. Vlad was renown at the time for his cruel measures to punish his enemies through impaling them. For this reason, he was also called Vlad the Impaler or, in Romanian, Vlad Tepeș
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Was Dracula a real person?

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Dracula is a fictitious character created by the British novelist Bram Stoker. Stoker drew inspiration from a Romanian prince called Vlad Dracul. Vlad led a Romanian province situated in the south of Transylvania for parts of the 15th century. Vlad was renown at the time for his cruel measures to punish his enemies through impaling them. For this reason, he was also called Vlad the Impaler or, in Romanian, Vlad Tepeș
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