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Europe-China Year of Youth 2013. http://www.draculanetwork.com/globalforum. "Vlad Tepes Dracula - between legend and historic truth".
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"Vlad Tepes Dracula - between legend and historic truth". * 1997 was the 100th anniversary since the publication of the novel "Dracula" written by Bram Stoker which generated the legend of the vampire character *Bram Stoker needed an exotic country for his novel and a character to resemble somehow what he wanted. The information used in the novel about Transylvania and Dracula was taken from a Hungarian scholar, Arminius Vambery, an Orientalist who provided some elements of the mediaeval legend about the Romanian prince * Among the many legends was the one made of the German stories published during Tepes life time by the Saxons living in Transylvanian towns of Brasov and Sibiu. These stories written as funny tales reached the Hungarian royal court which passing them on to the West when King Matei Corvin who came to Brasov with Vlad Tepes to arrested. Tepes was his prisoner for 12 years at Visegrad castle on the Danube. Matei Corvin was interest in spreading to the West this negative stories about Vlad Tepes. * What is very interesting, is that Vlad Tepes knew about the legends created around his personality, and during the last two years of his life Vlad Tepes took the name of Dracula. By adopting this nickname shows he was very proud of the legends about him finding them useful.
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