@@recep2939 Ohohoho... And we haven't even got the Forest of Tepes... That will be g(l)orious. Or the castle (I don't know the name sorry) which after he sent a letter to the Hungarian king, in which he detailed the killing of at least 23.000 people, and the ones they burned alive in their homes, and the ones his soldiers killed and dismembered...
@@sikertsok225oh yeah in time he got more and more crazy as far as I'm aware. Stories got crazier too and well... his end was not pleasant either according to various theories which was obvious probably.
Imagine him with anything vaguely resembling a PR department. "Support Vlad - he gets his point across!" edit: I have a better one. "Support Vlad - (or) you get the point!"
Vlad: How do you like your stake? Boyar: Hmm? Oh, I like my steak extra crispy. Vlad: I'll let the guards know. Boyar: Why, isn't this the cook's job? Vlad: He's busy preparing your last meal.
Noble families and their naming patterns. France cannot have enough Louis', Prussia needs more Fredericks/Wilhelms, Walachia more Vlads. I mean why would you need more than 1-2 Names, right?
@@definitly_not_putin in ww2 in a period of aroun 20 years romania went through fascism, comunism, democracy, constitutional monarchy and authoritarian monarchy.
*in the rhythm of "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" by Jim Croce* "Spain's got its Inquisition; France had got its Wheel! Wallachia's got Vlad the Impaler. He's a sharp-pointed son of a gun."
Before he rounded up the nobleman at the party he asked then how many princes they seen come after his father condemning themselves and pointing out that they can't be trusted
Honestly, Vlad sounds even more monstrous and terrifying than his fictional counterpart. Dracula from the original novel sounds like a cartoon villain in comparison.
Interestingly, Bram Stocker probably lifted the name of Dracula from Vlad Tepes III, and little of his character; while Count in the book does make references to his past, nothing is said that would really be true of Vlad Tepes III, particularly the Count claiming to be a Magyar (Hungarian).
The vampire dude's a spook boi who likes cute animals like bats, celebrating halloween in his house and to jumpscare people with "Boo" and is scared of the sun
The full version of the story of the boyars who were forced to build Poienari fortress goes something like this: As the boyars were feasting in the name of the new voivode, Vlad asked them a question: How many reigns did Wallachia have since the rule of his grand-father, Mircea the Elder (the greatest Wallachian ruler by that point). No-one could count less than 7. Some boyars counted as many as 20. After this the boyars and their families were marched north to Poienari, where the elders were impaled while the others were forced to build the castle until they died of exhaustion with their fine clothes fallen off.
GoT Fans: Nothing will ever be as brutal as the "Red Wedding" or any of the other stuff that happens in Game of Thrones. Extra History's Vlad the Impaler: Hold my Beer.
I live in Chile, I have a spanish name, and I am still a romanian, watching an episode from my country's history in English, told by a Polish man. What a crazy and amazing wold!!!! Thank you guys for this. There are also lots of romanians in the coments. I never thought I would meet them here; but I'm glad. Este o plăcere să vă salut. Bine v-am găsit. Noroc pentru toți!!!!!!
0:41 The castle they rebuild it's called "Poenari fortress" or "Poenari castle" and he still can be visited. He is in top of a mountain and you need to climb 1480 concrete stairs to get there. If you manage to get on top you will have a beautiful view.
Didn’t you see that episode of QI? The Spansh Inquisition always gave fair notice before you were summoned for an Auto da Fé! Everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition!
Right, after all they didn't use stakes. Among their weapons were only fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, almost fanatical devotion to the Pope and nice red uniforms ;-)
There's no feeling quite like having to go go into North Korea mode because your genius ruler had an inept failson and now your domain limit is basically nonexistent...
thank you for covering one of my favorite historical figures in your Extra History series. Here is hoping that this gets popular enough to influence creators thinking about doing Dracula adaptations using Vlad III, so that we start getting adaptations of the character that can properly utilize the best parts of the history to make really satisfying stories for both historians and lovers of fantasy, historical fiction, and otherwise.
Mehmet II literally chopped vlad's head off and invaded Romania. He is not a good opponent aganist Turks, i think the Ultimate combo aganist turks is Lawrence+ Polish hussars
@@pilavboy4417 not Mehmet, but as always, the betraying boyars. Also there are 2 accounts. One where his head is chopped off, another where he dies from the wounds and is secretly buried
"You can judge for yourselves: When a man or prince is strong or powerful he can make peace if he wants to. But when he is weak, a strong man will come and do what he wants to." He basically just summed up political Neorealism. The idea that peace is achievable when power is centralized in a single entity- unipolarity. Peace, neorealism says, is far less likely with multipolarity.
Vlad's hostility toward disloyal boyars, centralization of power, and reputation for cruelty remind me of another Orthodox ruler who reigned roughly a hundred years later a little over 900 miles (a little under 1,500 kilometers for all you civilized folk) to the northeast.
@@williamtheconqueror7807 He was cruel, though. St. Petersburg alone was built on the backs of thousands of frozen serfs, and that was just one of his many bloody enterprises.
Another thing about this battle too. That does show Vlad's brilliance he is against one of the mightiest military commanders of that era. He did not have the resources to fight him Toto so he pretty much scrounged up every single peasant that he can put all weapon in hand and did a gorilla warfare brula warfare into his own land. What made him legendary though was his night attack.
He solved unemployment, tax fraud, lack of work ethics, thieving, sperjury, laziness, greed, cowardice and treason in a flick of a finger. The solutions were kinda one sided.
Anyone who crossed Vlad got the point, sooner or later! It's hard to decide which tyrant with the name ending in "ula" was more terrifying, Dracula or Caligula...
Vlad liked killing the homeless said he was sending them to heaven and really was doing them a favor helping them while also helping the nation by getting rid of em. But I always had one huge objection even if you believe your just sending them to heaven why do you have to make the transition so painful by burning people to death instead of a hanging of a decapitation.
Still is. We're not very well known on an international level. Most Europeans would have heard of Romania because of the EU, but otherwise not really. We were trapped behind the Iron Curtain for 45 years, and before that we had barely had the chance to enjoy independence and running our own united state (from the 3 medieval provinces of Walachia, Moldova and Transylvania)
Stoker had a Hungarian friend. Talking about stuff in general, the topic of history and geopolitics came at one point during one of their meetings. His Hungarian friend would tell him about Vlad Drăculea and the Hungarian POV of him. Stoker documented I believe the various oral accounts that he could write down and some historical ones too. Stoker earned much of his success to this history, otherwise he would've disappeared as another writer that didn't went mainstream during his time/epoch.
Vlad: Seems like a nice town here... 😁💖 Town dog: Woof! 🐕🦺😡 Vlad: 🔥👿🔥... Impale... Everybody! Especially the children! ... Not the doggo though, aww Nice doggy 🤗🐕🦺💖
"And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." The Prince
Even know some people stone cheaters (an arguement can be made for whipping) because of Sharia law. And I may not agree with such severe punishments such as death by torture (skinning or stoning) but adulters isin't necessarly a good thing.
After playing Wallachia in Eu4 you really star to understand why this stuff happen. Also, when you have a military score of 6, is like having a Hammer and every problems seems like a nail
@@rennor3498 Vladimir means "ruler of peace/ the world" or "famous ruler", while Wilhelm means "vehement protector". Slavic variants of Wilhelm would be Uilliam, Vilgelm, etc.
What did Wilhelm do that puts him on the level of vlad the impaler? I mean sure WW1, but you cant really blame that on him, and even then it's not on the same level as vlad.
I'm kind of hoping they do a little bit on Elizabeth Bathory (who was a cousin of Vlad, if I recall correctly), and the almost certain smear campaign that gave her a historical reputation much like Vlad's, as a follow-up to this series.
When I took the class on tracula I could honestly say a lot of his cruelty comes from the fact that he I think he is incredibly sensitive and aware of how precarious his position is. He's in the situation of being the equivalency of a cold war dictator between Russia and America.
@@GaldirEonai because how succession work between the boyars, the Turks and Hungarian which is in Habsburg hands. He was rough place S ruler. I got to remember which book we read but he had whole proto secret police system ser up too. So he was really up to of everyone.
At that point in time rulers of smaller countries were basically currency for the bigger ones to gamble with. The real power was with the nobles who enjoyed all of the privilege of rulership with none of the accountability or the threat of foreign affairs.
When you reach a level of hyperviolence that would make Temujin go "okay, whoa!", you may possibly have gone a touch beyond the pale even by the low standards of the 15th Century Balkans.
I think making everyone squirm for the standard of the time was his tactic of keeping his small principality independent of the two great powers on his border
I notice that the thing that Vlad supposedly did with nailing hats to heads is also attributed to Ivan the Terrible; History can-or-cannot make-up its mind...
"Finally, I have managed to unify Wallachia under the same impaling system. No longer people are discriminatingly impaled according to race, sex or religion; now everyone who goes against my will suffers the same standardized, slow, painful death on top of my stakes (sustainably and locally manufactured)." - signed, Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia
I wouldn't be surprised if Vlad was also called "Bloody Hand" in Romanian when describing his rule tbh The sheer amount of brutality he had to enforce was just... DEYM.
A hero .A Latin Christian hero who stood strong against the Turk Islamic horde who destroyed his home and nation , destroyed his family and slaughtered his people .Long live Rumania , long live the Pan-Latin nation and long live Vlad Draculae .
When I was a teenager, with a group of friends we once wondered what would be our monikers if we were to appear in an adult film. I won that contest easily with that title.
