I am a Romanian and Vlad the Impaler is remembered as one the best voievods from the romanian culture. It is said that the fountains had cups made of gold, which weren't stolen because of the fear of being impaled.,, Funny'' story, right?
In Romania Vlad the Impaler is know as a hero. We learn of him I think even from the first lessons of history in 4th grade. He is one of the most important leaders of the the Romanian principalities but mainly because of his skills. Vlad was one of the greatesr generals of his time managing to destroy Ottoman armies many time larger than his mostly through Guerilla tactics. At some point in a campaign he was so stealthy that he almost managed to assasinate the Sultan himself (even the Turkish sources agree that if he didn't confuse the Sultan's tent he would have done a lot more damage). At the time of his campaigns in the Balkans many Christians refered to him as "king" or even the new "emperor". He was not that blood thirsty though. The Impaling was a very common method of torture throughout the Ottoman Empire where he was raised. As the time's chronicles state he was wukte loved by his people because other than Turks he would unleash his wrath only on criminals. There's a tale about a golden cup left at a crossroad fountain between 2 big cities. That thing was pretty expensive. It stayed for a few months there without anyone taking it because people knew of the consequencies of stealing and getting caught. The only accounts actually depicting him as a blood-thirsty savage were made by the Transylvanian Saxons as probapaganda meant to be directed to the Holy Roman Emperor in hopes of getting rid of him (as he raided some of those parts). Other than that the accounts of the time depicted him pretty okay.
especialy since this was the medieval era, in the west inocent wemen were burned alive without trail for "witchcraft" meanwhile in walachia this man only punished criminals and corupt aristocrats
@@greengreen110 this is also a reason he appears in our school history books. His is still remebered when it comes to the corrupt politicians in our country. The right-wing unionist party "Partidul România Unită" had his face as logo. About a hundred years ago our greatest poet Mihai Eminescu prayed for his comming in a critique letter directed to the times politicians,
Hey, my family is from Romania. Vlad the impaler is viewed as a true national hero, along with Stephen the Great, he helped fight off the Ottomans in a way that would ensure protection for all Romanians. Vlad also would kill off the rich, this in turn benefited the lower-class peasants. My dad describes him as the "Robin Hood of Romania".
@@Pulcion upstanding honest hard working country loving Rulers are the exceptions all Over the world Not Just in Romanian History. But also every Nation has had its Heroes
Nope, wrong figure, that was Cuza. Tepes was praised by the commies to boost our nationalist feelings, but in reality he was a f*cking psychopath. Yes he did some good things for the common people, but in the long run his short violent reign didn't have much of an impact, unlike Mircea or Stefan who actually implemented deep reforms in their kingdoms, not just pursued endless military campaigns.
In my country ( i'm Bulgarian ) Vlad is looked at with awe. Even though he was too far north from my people's lands to protect us from the ottomans, my ancestors were thankful that someone brought fear to the ottomans. In my experience with people's opinions on The Impaler, he is looked at with interest, with two of my cousins knowing pretty much everything about Mr. Tepes, and me being the third person in the family to be that interested in him. Overall, at least in my country, Dracula is more reffered to as a hero that a monster, person capable of instilling fear into the hearts of our oppressors.
Vlad Tepes (t is like a tz or c cedilla sound) is definitely seen as a hero in my country, even tho everyone considers him evil, we think he was necessary to keep our independence from the ottomans
Did you know he kept as a in prisoner in ottoman. But 2nd Murad son(2nd Mehmed) Grow up with Dracula and see him as a brother. When he became Hakan(king). Gave him Dracula his land as a ottoman Vassals. But Dracula what did ? his father's murderer rebelled against the ottomans with hungarian . And killed, tortured, killed, crucified ottoman soldiers. When 2nd Mehmed heard this assembled his army and defeated Hungarian, Dracula army. And killed Dracula. Which side honorable ?
Well, not really. "Drac" means devil in Romanian. The dragon from the golden emblem of the Order was meant to represent the devil and because Vlad II wore it the nobleman jokingly refered to hin as such. Drăculea is a diminutive of Dracul. Something like little "Dracul". This is why Vlad III was refered as such. So it dosn't means "son of the dragon" but it's not so far away
It means "little devil". 15th century Romanians didn't know what a dragon was (it has no correspondent in local mythology), but the emblem somewhat resembled ecclesiastical depictions of devils.
@@Dr_V of courese there was a word for it: Balaur! And this multi-headed, flying, fire-spitting lizard is very much prezent in the Romanian mythology. "Dragon" in itself came as a borrowed word in the next centuries.
I am surprised that we have so much common words with our romanian neighbors. Such as: voivod(a), drac(on) and so on. Greetings from Bulgaria and stay healthy!
Voevod is actually a borrowing from the proto-slavic "vojevoda" wich also gave your word. Drac actually means devil in Romanian, as our word for dragon is... well "dragon" wich is borrowed from French Both French "dragon" and Romanian "drac" were inherited from the Latin "draco". Both Latin "draco" and Bulgarian "drakon" were borrowed from Greek. Linguistics are pretty interesting once you get a hold of them.
we romanians have a lot of slavic influence in our language and it's not that surprising when 3 out of our 5 neighbours use a slavic language, about 15% of romanian words originated in a slavic language
@@andreipop5805 IT has much to do with Church Slavonic. The slavic influence in Western Romania IS in Somecases even greater than in the Parts where the Vlachs and Bulgars Had an Empire.
I am from the town where Vlad supposedly was born, Sighisoara. I never heard that he was called Draculea. I know that the all descendants of of Vlad Dracul were of the House of Draculesti, up to Michael the Brave. But anyway Vlad Tepes is known as a hero in Romania. Here is a short story that our middle school history teacher told us. It is said that in the middle of a city (let's say the capital at the time of Targoviste) there was a well. Vlad left a silver cup for everyone to drink from, but they had to put it back after they were finished drinking. Throughout his reign the cup was there. But one day someone came to get a sip of water and the cup was gone. That how they knew that Vlad was no longer the voivode. Conclusion: while he was cruel people respected him and most importantly the law. Nobody would dare steal, murder or break the law in any way.
Wallachian here :) As for your question, he's remembered as a hero, no doubt. In 2016 a national poll was conducted, to find out who of our historical rulers would Romanians vote for. Vlad won by a landslide of 35%, the runner up scoring 21%. One day I took to Google Maps to see how many streets named Vlad Tepes I could find. I stopped counting once I reached 70! I know that some may be distraught by us liking him so much, but then again who do you expect us to see as the good guys in this? The Ottomans? Yeah, good luck with that...
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@@stantorren4400 Did you know he kept as a in prisoner in ottoman. But 2nd Murad son(2nd Mehmed) Grow up with Dracula and see him as a brother. When he became Hakan(king). Gave him Dracula his land as a ottoman Vassals. But Dracula what did ? his father's murderer rebelled against the ottomans with hungarian . And killed, tortured, killed, crucified ottoman soldiers. When 2nd Mehmed heard this assembled his army and defeated Hungarian, Dracula army. And killed Dracula. Which side honorable ?
Btw, you shoud do a video on "Transilvania" at some point... a lot of people think it's Slavic in origin (mostly due to the Dracula association), when in fact it's.... [no spoilers]
In the Balkans where I'm from Vlad Dracula is not perceived as an evil figure but a hero who stood up to the Ottoman invaders, though it's not difficult to see why this distinction would be lost to the people who weren't in such danger.
In Turkey we call him Kazıklı Voyvoda, Voivode with Stokes since he impaled many Ottoman people. Also, i suggest you to watch Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate.
He was a hero to his people. He defended his people and there lands from the invasion of the Turks ! He was scary because he had to be. He was fighting a army way bigger then his. The story's were most likely exaggerated intentionally to create a disheartening effect on the enemy army!
I read this in an article that stated that Vlad also had XP, a disease where he you get burns when you are under the sun, and I believe that Dracula the Vampire was inspired by this as well
I'm from Turkey and according to Turkish sources : Wallachia vallas of Ottoman but 2th Vlad rebelled against the Ottoman governor and won the war. But 2th Murad reached and suppressed the rebellion . 2th Murad took his child as a prisoner 3th Vlad(dracula) and want to 500 jannisary every year as punishment . After this 2th vlad became loyal Ottoman but killed by Crusaders . 3th Vlad(DRACULA) and 2th Mehmed(son of 2th murad known by conquerer) grew up together as brothers . 2th Mehmed much love Dracula than borthers. and saw that he was upset that he did not grow up in his country . 2th Mehmed made him promise when he is the manager of his country give him Wallachia(but still ottoman vassals). And 2th Mehmed become Hakan(king). and kept his word . But Dracula changed after becoming king he want to independent. He was torturing, crucified and drinking blood from the Ottoman soldiers in his country . And rebelled again ottoman. 2th Mehmed hear that gathering your army and defeated Dracula. And as he did to his soldiers crufied 3th Vlad and killed him. Im sorry for Conquerer and Dracula because they are when they were young they were like brothers but after they fought each other . Sorry for my bad english.
7:33 i wouldn't say it was too much for him, since he defeated the ottomans MANY times, with a much smaller army than theirs. There are a lot of unbelievable things he managed to pull off. He became vojevod by having a sword duel with the previous guy, he pretended he was a turkish official and infiltrated, then captured a fort. He lead the famous night charge, in which sultan Mehmed II was defeated, and sended running through mud. He raided the northern part of Bulgaria (back then ottoman land), and people feared he would reach Istanbul. He was an MVP, and he died backstabbed, assassinated by some honourless rats !
Actually, Brahm stocker( the creator of Dracula) never stated it was named after him and he even stated it was not named after him but he came up with the name when he was collecting Slavic lore, correlation does not mean causation!
Vlad Tepes (Tepes being derived from the Romanian word of "Teapa" which means "Pale), is seen as a national hero here, as not only did he torture enemies to the country but he also purged the corrupt boyars (rich-upper class men) who were ruling Wallachia at the time, with the Voivode being just a puppet before he came to power. There are many many many good things he did, the only people who actually died at his hand were the unfaithful, corrupt, evil, betrayers and enemies of the state. Also fun fact: The Queen of England and Prince Charles are direct descendants of Vlad the Impaler.
Been to Castle Bran! Beautiful country all around Transylvania and Brasov (huge Carpathian mountains all around). You should visit Romania, get yourself some sarmale, mamaliga and tvika! Multu mesc ;)
I’m kinda disappointed you didn’t mention the origin of the name Vlad. For me, as for a person named Vladimir, explaining, that Vlad and Vladimir are totally different names is almost a weekly thing :)
@6:54 actually we can know for sure, because, except for the impalment, the other metods of torture were link to his name long after his death by hungarian "historians"
I already knew about his story when reading about the history of the ottmans . his brother stayed with the ottmans side and became a muslim but he didn't though they were raised by the ottmans.
Romanian here answering your request to comment about hero vs mad man: I think you tehnically provided a historically correct presentation, but I do think that you nunaced Vlad III in a negative only way. And as I heard somebody saying, the past should be treated like a forign country :-" I think what you described as a horific ruler was a generic one by medieval standards. May I recommend a podcast episode called Painfontaiment by Dan Carlin that describes state of things in Europe at the time? But the reason why he was considered a "good" ruled by Romanian standards is because the region was one of those places that needs a dictator like ruler to rule. If you know anything about the poticial region of Eastern Europe, the cultural region of the Balkans and the geographical region of Central Europe, you know that they are known for being people that are unrully and generally that's why authoritarian regimes were so common there even up to modern history. Well, the Romanian principalities fit into all of those 3 regions so.... Thanks for the video!
I would say that Vlad Țepeș wasn't particularly evil, jut a normal ruthless ruler of the time. Some of his gruesome feats are overexaggerated because he pissed off various people and maybe he actually cultivated this image particularly to strike fear into his enemies. He wouldn't have become this famous if it wasn't for that book as i don't think he was that special for his time. In Romanian schools and probably in orthodox countries he is regarded as a hero because he fought the Ottomans. The image I have from school is that of a hero that was cunning and ruthless with thieves, greedy noblemen and the Ottomans I have a "sneaky suspicion" that the reality of most of our hero/evil rulers is much more nuanced, but unfortunately we rarely see something based on that.
From what I heard, Dracula comes from the Irish droch fhola, meaning bad blood. This is pronounced drok ula, which easily could have been shortened to Dracula. That's just what I've heard anyway.
I'm Romanian. Drac doesn't mean dragon but devil. And as far as I know there are no words in Romanian for dragon other than words borrowed from English in the 20th century or 19th
@@wallachia4797 do you have sources for that? For a long time I was interested in dacian/thracian words that we've inherited into Romanian, though I couldn't find very many
In Romania we learn about Vlad the Impaler as a national hero, who protected our independence. He may seem mad but he didn't do these things without reason, but to his enemies, thieves and bandits
fishlegs It’s a common habit for English speakers. “Dracula” phonetically came out sounding like “Jra-kyoo-luh.” Similar to “Drive” sounding like “Jraiv,” “Tree” sounding like “Chree,” or “Fortune” sounding like “for-Chin.” Do you ever notice this?
@@lewatoaofair2522 Its a relatively common sound change in (Brittish?) English: dry > jry try > chry ...but 'fortune' is different, the 'r' has nothing to do with the 't > ch' sound change, but rather its the fault of the 'u', for the same reason one pronounces 'sure' as 'shure': dude > jude tunic > chunic no 'r' in site
Gunjα Fury Yeah. I’m mostly citing American dialects. But I have noticed this to be WAY more common in Britain. Especially when it comes to that absent R. (Words for speakers in the US have fewer of those.)
He is seen in a very positive light in Romania, and that can be explained pretty easily. We have allways had a problem with corruption, so much so that a famous poet of ours in the 19th century lamented how good it would be if Lord Vlad would return to "clean" the country. Since that poem the image of Vlad had resurfaced in Romanian mentality and he is used as an ideal of the leader who gets things done in severily punishes criminals. In a country so frustrated by untrusted political elites it's kinda easy to see how a guy like Vlad gets idealised and his other crimes and cruelty get brushed over.
The common Romanian knows 3-4 voievods. Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave) a ruler of Wallachia that managed to be the 1st one to conquer and become ruler of all 3 principalities; Ștefan cel Mare (Stephan the Great) a military genius who managed to win something like 97% of all his major battles; Constantin Brâncoveanu, a ruler who is known only for his martyrdom and later becoming a eastern Orthodox Saint along with all of his sons. The last one is Vlad Țepeș (this is something like "Vlad the Spike") who is mostly treated as a hero by romanian folk. Most people however do not know anything other that "he impaled people and he hated the turks". Why? Let's call it... Propaganda. Every state needs a few heroes, so when Romania was young, they started pushing Vlad as more of a "just ruler" that he actually was. His cruelty was mostly swiped under the rug, while he was pushed as a national hero. I am not here to say that he does not deserve the love here in Romania, because he is one of the reasons I got so into history since I was a child, but that no matter his "noble hero" status, but why he is still a monster in people so so so many peoples eyes
I only frown upon His laying the foundation of Bucharest. It could be seen as a Bad move But fitting for His heritage. I propose renaming it Orašul Drakului
@@wallachia4797 I was mostly being ironic:)) the Interbellum was a glorious period for the whole of Romania that being the Time Bucharest also shined the brightest. Wounds from the lost second war are still Open and those scared badly lamed us for generations. We endure though!
No, no, nope, hell NO! You've got so much of this wrong! First "dracul" in Romanian means "the devil", not dragon or some kind of snake. Old Romanian did not have an equivalent word for "dragon", even the concept was incomprehensible to local people as we never had dragons in local mythology, so they ended up using the word "devil" because the dragon depicted on royal heraldry at the time somewhat resembled depictions of devils in the orthodox bible. The common folk idea at the time was that Vlad the second got this title because he "fought like a devil" (as in very bravely) on the battlefield. "Draculea" is a diminutive, not a derivative, it means "little devil" not "son of the devil" and it never was an official title, just a popular nickname that Vlad the impaler eventually accepted, probably to be more popular among the peasants as in the common tongue it's more of a cuddly/funny name than a scary one. The spelling "Dracula" doesn't appear in any historical document. Impaling people on wooden poles wasn't invented by Vlad "the impaler", unfortunately this gruesome torture was practiced at least since the Roman republic (and probably even further back in history) and was quite popular throughout Europe at the time, though mostly used for individual executions rather than mass murdering captives. It didn't stop after his death either, some sadistic psychopaths kept doing this up to relatively modern times (like WW2 or the Vietnam conflict). Anyways, he chose this particular type of execution (from the many other disgusting practices of the time) because the Ottoman Turks sodomized his brother (and probably him as well) while in captivity. Finally, Vlad Tepes (a.k.a. the impaler) was much feared abroad, but historical records don't depict him as particularly cruel with his own subjects, though you must take into account that people had a very different mentality at the time. He did execute quite a few noblemen who disagreed with his policies, a lot of thieves and the occasional army deserters, he even murdered an entire town at one point, but these things were somewhat "normal" at the time. Most peasants loved him for his somewhat liberal ideas (for the time) and also for killing some of the noblemen who were oppressing and terrorizing them before. Believe it or not in the 15th century Romania (or Wallachia as westerners usually call it) starvation was killing a lot more common people than all the wars and diseases combined, as most rulers and noblemen of the time were systematically robbing peasants of their livelihood with the complicity (and support) of the Ottoman empire.
@@wallachia4797 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler#Third_rule_and_death Apparently Vlad got killed during yet another battle against the Ottomans and his head got cut out and sent to Sultan Mehmed II. I've heard that his dead body was hung out for the public to see on the gates of Constantinople. Good question!
@@wallachia4797 Oh, I just found the video I was talking about earlier, timestamp included: ruclips.net/video/oxmi1ogBNSA/видео.html It's an Ottoman/Muslim point of view, might not be the most reliable. They impaled the head only.
A certain swear rhyming with "frack you" translates to "dute dracu" in Romanian, which directly translates to "go to the devil". Also, all your spellings of Romanian words were horrible, Tepesi is pronounced Tsepeshi lol.
The movie Helsing was a sequel to another film that retold the Dracula story straight from Stoker's novel. That's how I remember the sequence but I could be wrong.
I don’t think I Vlad was more blood thirsty then his contemporaries. Impairing people was a good way to ensure people didn’t mess with him or his kingdom. And if Vlad hadn’t fought for the Holy Roman empire we might all be speaking Arabic and practicing Islam today. It’s time to stop generalizing his life to an oversimplified version that fits Bram Stokers fictional character. Thank you.
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I am a Romanian and Vlad the Impaler is remembered as one the best voievods from the romanian culture. It is said that the fountains had cups made of gold, which weren't stolen because of the fear of being impaled.,, Funny'' story, right?
If this is what your national heroes get up to I'd hate to see what your equivalent of Trump or Nixon is like.
*Church after killing Dracula's Wife:* _We've made a terrible and continuous lapse of our judgement_
*Dracula:* Peace was not an Option
In Romania Vlad the Impaler is know as a hero. We learn of him I think even from the first lessons of history in 4th grade.
He is one of the most important leaders of the the Romanian principalities but mainly because of his skills. Vlad was one of the greatesr generals of his time managing to destroy Ottoman armies many time larger than his mostly through Guerilla tactics. At some point in a campaign he was so stealthy that he almost managed to assasinate the Sultan himself (even the Turkish sources agree that if he didn't confuse the Sultan's tent he would have done a lot more damage). At the time of his campaigns in the Balkans many Christians refered to him as "king" or even the new "emperor".
He was not that blood thirsty though. The Impaling was a very common method of torture throughout the Ottoman Empire where he was raised. As the time's chronicles state he was wukte loved by his people because other than Turks he would unleash his wrath only on criminals. There's a tale about a golden cup left at a crossroad fountain between 2 big cities. That thing was pretty expensive. It stayed for a few months there without anyone taking it because people knew of the consequencies of stealing and getting caught.
The only accounts actually depicting him as a blood-thirsty savage were made by the Transylvanian Saxons as probapaganda meant to be directed to the Holy Roman Emperor in hopes of getting rid of him (as he raided some of those parts). Other than that the accounts of the time depicted him pretty okay.
Don't forget he would also kill off greedy boyar aristocrats, which helped Romanian peasants.
especialy since this was the medieval era, in the west inocent wemen were burned alive without trail for "witchcraft" meanwhile in walachia this man only punished criminals and corupt aristocrats
@@greengreen110 this is also a reason he appears in our school history books.
His is still remebered when it comes to the corrupt politicians in our country.
The right-wing unionist party "Partidul România Unită" had his face as logo.
About a hundred years ago our greatest poet Mihai Eminescu prayed for his comming in a critique letter directed to the times politicians,
* known
@@LunaBari I must have eaten up a letter there. The word "known" was the only one I had in mind.
In any case me dosn't knows english very wel.
Hey, my family is from Romania. Vlad the impaler is viewed as a true national hero, along with Stephen the Great, he helped fight off the Ottomans in a way that would ensure protection for all Romanians. Vlad also would kill off the rich, this in turn benefited the lower-class peasants. My dad describes him as the "Robin Hood of Romania".
Which is not a good description as he wasn't an Outlaw. I believe Iancu Jianu or Tudor Vladimirescu deserve this "title" more
I'm from Romania , he is remember like one of the best voievod
Btw : pretty good pronunciation
"Imagine a forest of corpses lying on a buffet. You call that a nightmare I call that a tuesday" - Vlad Dracula
Are you trying to say Tuesday or Thursday?
@@jadew6795 I wanted to type Tuesday. Man, years of learning English and still cant pronounce the days of the week correctly
Woke up on a groovy Tuesday
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You mean spell?
ERB?
"not just the men, but the women and the children too"
1st Samuel 15:3 (+ the animals)
This mostly applied to pregnant prostitues and their babies.
There's no record that I'm aware of talking about the impaling of children.
When you know who the subject of a Name Explain video is going to be before you watch the video:
*_I am four parallel universes ahead of you._*
Vlad the impaler
some romanians call him "our last honest ruler"
Rasari Soare why?
@@kittye8340 well because almost all of our rulers were corrupt
P.s. see phanariot regime in Wallachia and Moldavia
@@Pulcion upstanding honest hard working country loving Rulers are the exceptions all Over the world Not Just in Romanian History. But also every Nation has had its Heroes
@@adrianirimescu988 yup
Nope, wrong figure, that was Cuza. Tepes was praised by the commies to boost our nationalist feelings, but in reality he was a f*cking psychopath. Yes he did some good things for the common people, but in the long run his short violent reign didn't have much of an impact, unlike Mircea or Stefan who actually implemented deep reforms in their kingdoms, not just pursued endless military campaigns.
I'm from Romania, and I can confirm that Vlad Țepeș is now remembered as somewhat of a national hero.
God: "Vlad Tepes of Walachia, son of the dragon, the Impailer...Dracula."
Alucard: "Actually I go by Alucard now."
Țepeș*
@@alexandrub8786 Thank you and corrected.
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In my country ( i'm Bulgarian ) Vlad is looked at with awe. Even though he was too far north from my people's lands to protect us from the ottomans, my ancestors were thankful that someone brought fear to the ottomans. In my experience with people's opinions on The Impaler, he is looked at with interest, with two of my cousins knowing pretty much everything about Mr. Tepes, and me being the third person in the family to be that interested in him.
Overall, at least in my country, Dracula is more reffered to as a hero that a monster, person capable of instilling fear into the hearts of our oppressors.
Vlad Tepes (t is like a tz or c cedilla sound) is definitely seen as a hero in my country, even tho everyone considers him evil, we think he was necessary to keep our independence from the ottomans
Did you know he kept as a in prisoner in ottoman. But 2nd Murad son(2nd Mehmed) Grow up with Dracula and see him as a brother. When he became Hakan(king). Gave him Dracula his land as a ottoman Vassals. But Dracula what did ? his father's murderer rebelled against the ottomans with hungarian
. And killed, tortured, killed, crucified
ottoman soldiers. When 2nd Mehmed heard this assembled his army
and defeated Hungarian, Dracula army. And killed Dracula. Which side honorable ?
so "Dracula" means Dragonborn? Dang it, Todd Howard....
Well, not really.
"Drac" means devil in Romanian.
The dragon from the golden emblem of the Order was meant to represent the devil and because Vlad II wore it the nobleman jokingly refered to hin as such.
Drăculea is a diminutive of Dracul.
Something like little "Dracul".
This is why Vlad III was refered as such. So it dosn't means "son of the dragon" but it's not so far away
It means "little devil". 15th century Romanians didn't know what a dragon was (it has no correspondent in local mythology), but the emblem somewhat resembled ecclesiastical depictions of devils.
@@Dr_V of courese there was a word for it: Balaur!
And this multi-headed, flying, fire-spitting lizard is very much prezent in the Romanian mythology.
"Dragon" in itself came as a borrowed word in the next centuries.
@@Dr_V It does have local mythology, it has actual history behind it, the Dacian Draco.
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Belmont's and Morris clan: *_how many times must we tell you this old man??!!_*
Quality meme right there.
don't forget Alucard, Belnades clan and Shanoa
I am from Romania. Here we consider him a national hero and one of the greatest rulers we ever had.
De ce ai pe Stalin ca si poza ta?
@@abradolflincler726 Idk, mi-a placut poza.
@@abradolflincler726 si imi place sa fac troll cum ca as fi rus :)))
As much as I want to hate his murderous deed, he did protected Wallachia from Hungaria & Ottoman
@Hawaiian Pride I consider his actions as necessary. I wouldn't mind if he was president today.
I am surprised that we have so much common words with our romanian neighbors. Such as: voivod(a), drac(on) and so on.
Greetings from Bulgaria and stay healthy!
Voevod is actually a borrowing from the proto-slavic "vojevoda" wich also gave your word.
Drac actually means devil in Romanian, as our word for dragon is... well "dragon" wich is borrowed from French
Both French "dragon" and Romanian "drac" were inherited from the Latin "draco".
Both Latin "draco" and Bulgarian "drakon" were borrowed from Greek.
Linguistics are pretty interesting once you get a hold of them.
we romanians have a lot of slavic influence in our language and it's not that surprising when 3 out of our 5 neighbours use a slavic language, about 15% of romanian words originated in a slavic language
@@greengreen110 3,50 of our neighbours to be more Precise.
@@adrianirimescu988 ?
@@andreipop5805 IT has much to do with Church Slavonic. The slavic influence in Western Romania IS in Somecases even greater than in the Parts where the Vlachs and Bulgars Had an Empire.
I am from the town where Vlad supposedly was born, Sighisoara.
I never heard that he was called Draculea. I know that the all descendants of of Vlad Dracul were of the House of Draculesti, up to Michael the Brave.
But anyway Vlad Tepes is known as a hero in Romania. Here is a short story that our middle school history teacher told us.
It is said that in the middle of a city (let's say the capital at the time of Targoviste) there was a well. Vlad left a silver cup for everyone to drink from, but they had to put it back after they were finished drinking. Throughout his reign the cup was there. But one day someone came to get a sip of water and the cup was gone. That how they knew that Vlad was no longer the voivode.
Conclusion: while he was cruel people respected him and most importantly the law. Nobody would dare steal, murder or break the law in any way.
Wallachian here :)
As for your question, he's remembered as a hero, no doubt. In 2016 a national poll was conducted, to find out who of our historical rulers would Romanians vote for. Vlad won by a landslide of 35%, the runner up scoring 21%. One day I took to Google Maps to see how many streets named Vlad Tepes I could find. I stopped counting once I reached 70! I know that some may be distraught by us liking him so much, but then again who do you expect us to see as the good guys in this? The Ottomans? Yeah, good luck with that...
What do you call a vampire that eats his food too fast?
Vlad the Inhaler
I can't wait to see Dracula saying, "BLEH BLEH BLEH!!!" in every sentence he speaks out of his mouth.
Vlad Dracula is a hero, more like a Deadpool type of hero ;)
Yes
Wow, this might be the best summary on the topic ever
I love the gratuitous shots of violence you showed while discussing how Vlad got the name The Impaler!
I listened to the Illiad, Oddysey and the Aeneid on Audible. I enjoyed them so much I ordered a physical box set of the books, which just came in today, I'm so excited.
Name Explain: A certain vampire saga...
Me: Interview With The Vampire. (Sees screen.) Oh...
Vlad the impaler?
A way to stop Turks coming
@@stantorren4400 Did you know he kept as a in prisoner in ottoman. But 2nd Murad son(2nd Mehmed) Grow up with Dracula and see him as a brother. When he became Hakan(king). Gave him Dracula his land as a ottoman Vassals. But Dracula what did ? his father's murderer rebelled against the ottomans with hungarian
. And killed, tortured, killed, crucified
ottoman soldiers. When 2nd Mehmed heard this assembled his army
and defeated Hungarian, Dracula army. And killed Dracula. Which side honorable ?
Btw, you shoud do a video on "Transilvania" at some point... a lot of people think it's Slavic in origin (mostly due to the Dracula association), when in fact it's.... [no spoilers]
Vlad is also the ancestor of the queen of England
In the Balkans where I'm from Vlad Dracula is not perceived as an evil figure but a hero who stood up to the Ottoman invaders, though it's not difficult to see why this distinction would be lost to the people who weren't in such danger.
In Turkey we call him Kazıklı Voyvoda, Voivode with Stokes since he impaled many Ottoman people.
Also, i suggest you to watch Hellsing and Hellsing Ultimate.
Ottomans: Lets invade wallachia. What coukd go wrong?
Vlad Dracul: I need about 20000 pikes that could fit people.
I'm Romanian and, in Romania, Vlad is a National Hero.
He was a hero to his people. He defended his people and there lands from the invasion of the Turks ! He was scary because he had to be. He was fighting a army way bigger then his. The story's were most likely exaggerated intentionally to create a disheartening effect on the enemy army!
I read this in an article that stated that Vlad also had XP, a disease where he you get burns when you are under the sun, and I believe that Dracula the Vampire was inspired by this as well
I'm from Turkey and according to Turkish sources :
Wallachia vallas of Ottoman but 2th Vlad rebelled against the Ottoman governor and won the war. But 2th Murad reached and suppressed the rebellion
. 2th Murad took his child as a prisoner
3th Vlad(dracula) and want to 500 jannisary every year as punishment
. After this 2th vlad became loyal Ottoman but killed by Crusaders
. 3th Vlad(DRACULA) and 2th Mehmed(son of 2th murad known by conquerer) grew up together as brothers
. 2th Mehmed much love Dracula than borthers. and saw that he was upset that he did not grow up in his country
. 2th Mehmed made him promise when he is the manager of his country give him Wallachia(but still ottoman vassals). And 2th Mehmed become Hakan(king). and kept his word
. But Dracula changed after becoming king
he want to independent. He was torturing, crucified and drinking blood from the Ottoman soldiers in his country
. And rebelled again ottoman. 2th Mehmed hear that gathering your army
and defeated
Dracula. And as he did to his soldiers
crufied 3th Vlad and killed him. Im sorry for Conquerer and Dracula because they are when they were young they were like brothers
but after they fought each other
.
Sorry for my bad english.
7:33 i wouldn't say it was too much for him, since he defeated the ottomans MANY times, with a much smaller army than theirs.
There are a lot of unbelievable things he managed to pull off.
He became vojevod by having a sword duel with the previous guy, he pretended he was a turkish official and infiltrated, then captured a fort.
He lead the famous night charge, in which sultan Mehmed II was defeated, and sended running through mud.
He raided the northern part of Bulgaria (back then ottoman land), and people feared he would reach Istanbul.
He was an MVP, and he died backstabbed, assassinated by some honourless rats !
About all great leaders we had got backstabbed in the end.
Si salut tovaras :)))
Actually, Brahm stocker( the creator of Dracula) never stated it was named after him and he even stated it was not named after him but he came up with the name when he was collecting Slavic lore, correlation does not mean causation!
Vlad Tepes (Tepes being derived from the Romanian word of "Teapa" which means "Pale), is seen as a national hero here, as not only did he torture enemies to the country but he also purged the corrupt boyars (rich-upper class men) who were ruling Wallachia at the time, with the Voivode being just a puppet before he came to power.
There are many many many good things he did, the only people who actually died at his hand were the unfaithful, corrupt, evil, betrayers and enemies of the state.
Also fun fact: The Queen of England and Prince Charles are direct descendants of Vlad the Impaler.
Not of Vlad the 3 but the second on what i know.
@@alexandrub8786 Nope, Vlad the Impaler, The Prince of Whales also holds the title of Prince of Transylvania at the moment because of that.
Thanks for the Castelvania name drop!
I always think of the real guy
So do I.
6:44 Apparently Vlad the Impaler and Carole Baskin have something in common!
Been to Castle Bran! Beautiful country all around Transylvania and Brasov (huge Carpathian mountains all around). You should visit Romania, get yourself some sarmale, mamaliga and tvika! Multu mesc ;)
Buna Joel, I am glad to hear that, also it's multumesc :)
Vlad was truly a genius
I love how he used plants has the forms of torture
I’m kinda disappointed you didn’t mention the origin of the name Vlad. For me, as for a person named Vladimir, explaining, that Vlad and Vladimir are totally different names is almost a weekly thing :)
@6:54 actually we can know for sure, because, except for the impalment, the other metods of torture were link to his name long after his death by hungarian "historians"
I already knew about his story when reading about the history of the ottmans .
his brother stayed with the ottmans side and became a muslim but he didn't though they were raised by the ottmans.
Romanian here answering your request to comment about hero vs mad man:
I think you tehnically provided a historically correct presentation, but I do think that you nunaced Vlad III in a negative only way.
And as I heard somebody saying, the past should be treated like a forign country :-"
I think what you described as a horific ruler was a generic one by medieval standards. May I recommend a podcast episode called Painfontaiment by Dan Carlin that describes state of things in Europe at the time?
But the reason why he was considered a "good" ruled by Romanian standards is because the region was one of those places that needs a dictator like ruler to rule. If you know anything about the poticial region of Eastern Europe, the cultural region of the Balkans and the geographical region of Central Europe, you know that they are known for being people that are unrully and generally that's why authoritarian regimes were so common there even up to modern history. Well, the Romanian principalities fit into all of those 3 regions so....
Thanks for the video!
Oh, it's even on sale: www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-painfotainment/
Me: wallachia....wallachia.... CASTLEVANIA!!! TEVOR BELMONT DRACULA TEPES
I would say that Vlad Țepeș wasn't particularly evil, jut a normal ruthless ruler of the time. Some of his gruesome feats are overexaggerated because he pissed off various people and maybe he actually cultivated this image particularly to strike fear into his enemies. He wouldn't have become this famous if it wasn't for that book as i don't think he was that special for his time.
In Romanian schools and probably in orthodox countries he is regarded as a hero because he fought the Ottomans. The image I have from school is that of a hero that was cunning and ruthless with thieves, greedy noblemen and the Ottomans
I have a "sneaky suspicion" that the reality of most of our hero/evil rulers is much more nuanced, but unfortunately we rarely see something based on that.
The ottomans were not exactly the friendliest bunch either.
From what I heard, Dracula comes from the Irish droch fhola, meaning bad blood. This is pronounced drok ula, which easily could have been shortened to Dracula.
That's just what I've heard anyway.
I’m from the uk but I think that a lot of valds actions were justified
Shame most British people remember Romanians for the gypsies and not all the good we did for Europe.
where are my romanians? 🇷🇴
I'm Romanian. Drac doesn't mean dragon but devil. And as far as I know there are no words in Romanian for dragon other than words borrowed from English in the 20th century or 19th
Balaur?
@@PrinceVega da, dar balaur poate însemna mai multe alea, nu doar dragon, nu-i așa? Poate greșesc și eu așa că corecteazămă
Dacian Draco, the word Draco is the equivalent of Dragon and has existed for thousands of years.
@@wallachia4797 do you have sources for that? For a long time I was interested in dacian/thracian words that we've inherited into Romanian, though I couldn't find very many
@@PrinceVega m-am uitat, ai dreptate, balaur are vedere cu dragoni
Nice!
In Romania we learn about Vlad the Impaler as a national hero, who protected our independence. He may seem mad but he didn't do these things without reason, but to his enemies, thieves and bandits
Question with pronunciation (what a surprise):
Can you make the “dr-“ sounds without making it sound like “jr-“?
What you mean give examples
fishlegs It’s a common habit for English speakers. “Dracula” phonetically came out sounding like “Jra-kyoo-luh.” Similar to “Drive” sounding like “Jraiv,” “Tree” sounding like “Chree,” or “Fortune” sounding like “for-Chin.”
Do you ever notice this?
@@lewatoaofair2522
Its a relatively common sound change in (Brittish?) English:
dry > jry
try > chry
...but 'fortune' is different, the 'r' has nothing to do with the 't > ch' sound change, but rather its the fault of the 'u', for the same reason one pronounces 'sure' as 'shure':
dude > jude
tunic > chunic
no 'r' in site
Gunjα Fury Yeah. I’m mostly citing American dialects. But I have noticed this to be WAY more common in Britain. Especially when it comes to that absent R. (Words for speakers in the US have fewer of those.)
@@lewatoaofair2522
Are you refering to the silent Rs at the ends of syllables?
Ah, my favourite Wallachian!
He is seen in a very positive light in Romania, and that can be explained pretty easily. We have allways had a problem with corruption, so much so that a famous poet of ours in the 19th century lamented how good it would be if Lord Vlad would return to "clean" the country. Since that poem the image of Vlad had resurfaced in Romanian mentality and he is used as an ideal of the leader who gets things done in severily punishes criminals. In a country so frustrated by untrusted political elites it's kinda easy to see how a guy like Vlad gets idealised and his other crimes and cruelty get brushed over.
The common Romanian knows 3-4 voievods. Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave) a ruler of Wallachia that managed to be the 1st one to conquer and become ruler of all 3 principalities; Ștefan cel Mare (Stephan the Great) a military genius who managed to win something like 97% of all his major battles; Constantin Brâncoveanu, a ruler who is known only for his martyrdom and later becoming a eastern Orthodox Saint along with all of his sons.
The last one is Vlad Țepeș (this is something like "Vlad the Spike") who is mostly treated as a hero by romanian folk. Most people however do not know anything other that "he impaled people and he hated the turks". Why? Let's call it... Propaganda. Every state needs a few heroes, so when Romania was young, they started pushing Vlad as more of a "just ruler" that he actually was.
His cruelty was mostly swiped under the rug, while he was pushed as a national hero.
I am not here to say that he does not deserve the love here in Romania, because he is one of the reasons I got so into history since I was a child, but that no matter his "noble hero" status, but why he is still a monster in people so so so many peoples eyes
Sigismond looks like he just woke up
That's my ancestor
I just really want to know: “What is a man?!”
Gruesome! I had to partially cover my eyes and watch thru my fingers when he showed all the impaling an skinning and chopping photos!
Maybe I should change my Grindr name to Vlad...
Why do you pronounce it as Jracul instead of Dracul?
Because that's how brits talk
"Actually, I go by Alucard now"
No wonder you kill a vampire by stabbing him with a wooden stake through the heart!
Come on Patrick, you won't tell us that you used Age of Empires 2 as a source for Vlad story, right?
Vlad did a lot more than being a sadist. He did a lot of good things for the country, poor economically and politically
I only frown upon His laying the foundation of Bucharest.
It could be seen as a Bad move But fitting for His heritage.
I propose renaming it Orašul Drakului
@@adrianirimescu988 Bucharest used to be a great city, it was only ruined by the communists.
@@wallachia4797 I was mostly being ironic:))
the Interbellum was a glorious period for the whole of Romania that being the Time Bucharest also shined the brightest.
Wounds from the lost second war are still Open and those scared badly lamed us for generations.
We endure though!
@@adrianirimescu988 We will shine again one day.
@@wallachia4797 Amen Brother
No, no, nope, hell NO! You've got so much of this wrong!
First "dracul" in Romanian means "the devil", not dragon or some kind of snake. Old Romanian did not have an equivalent word for "dragon", even the concept was incomprehensible to local people as we never had dragons in local mythology, so they ended up using the word "devil" because the dragon depicted on royal heraldry at the time somewhat resembled depictions of devils in the orthodox bible. The common folk idea at the time was that Vlad the second got this title because he "fought like a devil" (as in very bravely) on the battlefield.
"Draculea" is a diminutive, not a derivative, it means "little devil" not "son of the devil" and it never was an official title, just a popular nickname that Vlad the impaler eventually accepted, probably to be more popular among the peasants as in the common tongue it's more of a cuddly/funny name than a scary one. The spelling "Dracula" doesn't appear in any historical document.
Impaling people on wooden poles wasn't invented by Vlad "the impaler", unfortunately this gruesome torture was practiced at least since the Roman republic (and probably even further back in history) and was quite popular throughout Europe at the time, though mostly used for individual executions rather than mass murdering captives. It didn't stop after his death either, some sadistic psychopaths kept doing this up to relatively modern times (like WW2 or the Vietnam conflict). Anyways, he chose this particular type of execution (from the many other disgusting practices of the time) because the Ottoman Turks sodomized his brother (and probably him as well) while in captivity.
Finally, Vlad Tepes (a.k.a. the impaler) was much feared abroad, but historical records don't depict him as particularly cruel with his own subjects, though you must take into account that people had a very different mentality at the time. He did execute quite a few noblemen who disagreed with his policies, a lot of thieves and the occasional army deserters, he even murdered an entire town at one point, but these things were somewhat "normal" at the time. Most peasants loved him for his somewhat liberal ideas (for the time) and also for killing some of the noblemen who were oppressing and terrorizing them before. Believe it or not in the 15th century Romania (or Wallachia as westerners usually call it) starvation was killing a lot more common people than all the wars and diseases combined, as most rulers and noblemen of the time were systematically robbing peasants of their livelihood with the complicity (and support) of the Ottoman empire.
I am from Serbia and some people here unfortunately see him as a hero
"the man after whom dracula was named", name explain, surely 🙄
So Dracula then is... The One They Fear?
Simpson, means the son of simp? Makes sense
it looks like he has an olive on his forehead.
Only 11 comments?
My street is named Vlad Țepeș
All that for Vlad bloody Tepes?!?
The Ottomans ended up impaling Dracula's head.
Source? I've never heard of this before lmao
@@wallachia4797 Heard it in some video a while ago... I'll get back to you!
@@wallachia4797 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler#Third_rule_and_death Apparently Vlad got killed during yet another battle against the Ottomans and his head got cut out and sent to Sultan Mehmed II.
I've heard that his dead body was hung out for the public to see on the gates of Constantinople. Good question!
@@mdukasa I knew that his head got cut off, that one is more or less accepted by most historians, but the impalement part is new to me.
@@wallachia4797 Oh, I just found the video I was talking about earlier, timestamp included:
ruclips.net/video/oxmi1ogBNSA/видео.html
It's an Ottoman/Muslim point of view, might not be the most reliable. They impaled the head only.
He looks like weegee....anyone remember weegee
He nice
I dropped the 666th like
dracula has something to do with satan right?
right?
so in the eyes of romanians he is ok
that means he is ok i guess
👋👍👍👍👍
Prince Charles has Vlad's blood in him
0:28 drac is chinese?
Hes Romanian
Vlad wasn't even a bad leader he was strict sure but you try being a king in such a situation
dracula is heck or devil in romanian.
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A certain swear rhyming with "frack you" translates to "dute dracu" in Romanian, which directly translates to "go to the devil".
Also, all your spellings of Romanian words were horrible, Tepesi is pronounced Tsepeshi lol.
Saint Vlad The Turk Slayer
If you keep out rhe turks you can be even the arch vampire of the country you'll be glorified.
It's obviously Hellsing reference
"Actually I go by Alucard now"
"bitches love cannons"
The movie Helsing was a sequel to another film that retold the Dracula story straight from Stoker's novel. That's how I remember the sequence but I could be wrong.
:)
I don’t think I Vlad was more blood thirsty then his contemporaries. Impairing people was a good way to ensure people didn’t mess with him or his kingdom. And if Vlad hadn’t fought for the Holy Roman empire we might all be speaking Arabic and practicing Islam today. It’s time to stop generalizing his life to an oversimplified version that fits Bram Stokers fictional character. Thank you.
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