Timeline for How is it possible for Count Dracula to rule over an entire country?
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| Nov 17, 2019 at 14:41 | vote | accept | user70451 | ||
| Nov 17, 2019 at 0:40 | answer | added | Nick | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | Pelinore | @jamesqf : How would anyone know something like that? think about it a minute .. obviously I am one, met him & he wasn't, it's the only logical conclusion ;p if he was bitten after becoming Voivode of Wallachia then it's not relevant to the question is it, especially if he was turned shortly before he was believed to have 'died'. | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 5:15 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Pelinore: 1) How do you KNOW that Vlad Tepes wasn't a vampire? Would he have told people if he was? 2) What prevents Vlad, or some other ruler, from being bitten by a vampire at some point in his life, thus becoming one? | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 5:01 | answer | added | Ton Day | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 4:54 | comment | added | AlexP | @VogonPoet: The title voivode was used throughout central / eastern Europe, with different meanings. In the Romanian principalities, it was the title used by the rulers of the country, hence "prince". In Poland up to this day they call their provinces voivodates and their governors voivodes; historically, it was something like a "duke". (The proper Slavic meaning of the word would be "war leader".) | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 4:52 | answer | added | Banana Dan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 4:48 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | @AlexP - I was just going by Brittanica. They referred to voivode as a "military governor or prince". | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 4:40 | comment | added | AlexP | @VogonPoet: We Romanians very much prefer "prince" of Wal(l)achia, not "governor". Wal(l)achia, Moldavia and Transylvania were principalities, not governorates. (The Romanian title is something like "I <name> voivode, by the grace of God sole master and lord of the Romanian Land". And Vlad III was born in Transylvania only because his father had to live there for some time while a rival branch of the old Basarab dynasty ruled Wallachia.) | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 4:07 | answer | added | Seallussus | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 4:00 | comment | added | Pelinore | @VogonPoet : "Factually, it happened" : Oh my, "factually" yes Vlad Țepeș was the ruler of Wallachia, howsoever, "factually" a vampire he was not .. as you were, you can carry on now, my sudden attack of unsolicited pedantry seems to have passed, | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 3:51 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | Vlad fought brutally with his younger brother (who sided with the Ottomans) and eventually became the governor (voivodate) of Walachia, leaving thousands of corpses who had been impaled alive in fields to warn off the Ottomans. He was born in Transylvania but never ruled there. | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 3:47 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | Count Vlad Dracula (Vlad III Drăculea) actually did rule over a county. Factually, it happened like this: Vlad was the second of four brothers born into the noble family of Vlad II Dracul. His name was derived from the Latin draco (“dragon”) after his father’s induction into the Order of the Dragon, created by Emperor Sigismund to defend Christian Europe against the Ottomans. Vlad moved to Walachia when his father came to power. In 1442 Vlad went to Sultan Murad II to assure him that Walachia would support Ottoman policies. Vlad returned in 1448 on news that his family was assassinated. | |
| Nov 16, 2019 at 3:18 | comment | added | Pelinore | I don't see your problem, why would he have any more difficulty ruling his country than any other (brutal or not) tyrant throughout history? I assume there's the standard government infrastructure? so he's at the top of it then, end of discussion .. you're going to need to elaborate on what you perceive the problem to be that you think you need to find a fix for because I don't see one, & I doubt I'll be alone in that. | |
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