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Vlad the Impaler: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Vlad III Drăculea • Vlad III • Vlad Ţepeș • Vlad III Dracula
Born 1431 • Sighișoara • Romania
Died 1476 (aged 45) • Bucharest • Romania

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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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