Vlad the Impaler

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Oil painting of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, shown with long dark hair, a mustache, a red velvet hat decorated with pearls and a jeweled star, and a fur-trimmed red coat.

1499 German woodcut by Ambrosius Huber showing Vlad III Tepes seated at a table dining while impaled bodies are displayed on stakes behind him.

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ruler of Walachia

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Oil painting of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, shown with long dark hair, a mustache, a red velvet hat decorated with pearls and a jeweled star, and a fur-trimmed red coat.

Vlad III Dracula

Vlad the Impaler was the nickname of Vlad III Dracula

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1499 German woodcut by Ambrosius Huber showing Vlad III Tepes seated at a table dining while impaled bodies are displayed on stakes behind him.

Vlad the Impaler

Vlad the Impaler dining near the mutilated bodies of his victims, as depicted in...

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