Stoker’s character,
Count Dracula
As for Vlad Tepes, the ruler of
gorge to Brasov, which connects if Vlad Tepes captured Bran
with Targoviste, Vlad Tepes‟ Castle. Written documents do not
capital. The original customs describe it. The documents that do
Walachia, he does, indeed, has an houses at which taxes were
exist in archives with regard to
association with Bran Castle.
collected from merchants entering Bran Castle, are mainly
Vlad was involved in several
Transylvania are still at the base administrative and refer to the
campaigns to punish the German
of Bran Castle. The relationships
income and expenditure of the
merchants of Brasov who failed to with the Bran lords were not very domain of the Bran Fortress, with
abide by his commands as regards cordial, as they were
little mention of political and
their trade in his Walachian
representatives of the Citadel of
military events.
markets. Passage to Wallachia Brasov, which were hostile to
was through Bran, the closest Vlad the Impaler. It is not known
However, in the fall of 1462, after the army of the
Hungarian king, Matei Corvin, captured Vlad Tepes nearby
the fortress of Podul Dambovitei, near Rucar, it appears that
Vlad was taken to Bran Castle and locked up there for two
months. This is affirmed in the recent volume Vlad The
Impaler – Dracula, published by the Mirador Printing
House, Arad, 2002, authored by Gheorghe Lazea
Postelnicu. From here, Vlad was taken and imprisoned in
Vlad Tepes (Dracul)
Bran Castle,Brasov
Romania
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the Visegrad Fortress.