Romanians are not Gypsies!

[ЛыSSый]

It's so hilarious to read how different aborigens are trying to steal great hohol Vlad.

[Robocop]

The fictional character clearly described his own origins in the book.

Well fictional character could be Icelander, doesnt matter, it was based on Wallachian noble-man Vlad the Impaler (Dracul).

And I repeat, even in novel Dracula is mentioned to speak romanian.

[WeirdLookingFellow]

And how do Italians feel about Romanians? I alsó heard many things.

There are no more Italians, only Romanians. They returned to their truthful Roman motherland.

[GoneWithTheWind]

Romany 4 life

[Szegedist]

There are no more Italians, only Romanians. They returned to their truthful Roman motherland.

Vadim Caesariu Tudor agrees with this post.

[Berahthraban]

Whenever I hear someone talking about "Romanian beggars" as if they were ethnic Romanians, I simply have to correct them

[Grishnack]

Ofcourse vampires don't exist lol, I was referring on Bram Stoker novel and how Vampire mythology was spreaded.

And Vlad the Impaler (from order of Dracul-Dragon, Dracul can mean either dragon or satan on romanian if I'm not mistaken, I dont speak Romanian but remember all this) was noble-man from Wallachia, aka; Romanian.

Vlad's father was murdered and his brother MIRCEA (this sounds to you as hungarian name? or name of his younger brother - RADU?) after Hungarian governor Hunyadi invaded Wallachia.

Bram Stoker based his fictional vampire character Dracula on Vlad the Impaler, ergo; on Romanian Knight Vlad, only he placed him in Transylvania.

Also in novel, Bram Stoker writes as character J.Harker; "when we left Budapest and went for Transylvania, I had feeling we are leaving western Europe".

Also troughout novel Dracula speaks on Romanian, so even Bram Stoker considered his fictional character as Romanian, and about true Dracula; Vlad the Impaler, there is not doubt he was Romanian.

P.S. Vlad the Impaler (Dracula) went on attack in alliance with Ottomans on his own cousin Vladislav II because Hungarians placed Vladislav II (Hunyadi placed him) as governor of Wallachia.

Later Vlad will turn against Ottomans ofcourse.

Robocop, thank you for defending us. But Dracula was a Szekler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_...r.27s_creation

"Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun."

[Queen B]

I was in Romania, just the weekend that past and all the Romanians I met are super nice and friendly and hospitable people. All.
From our tour guides, to some friends' friends there, to even the Xmas market seller we spoke a bit .

[Grishnack]

Whenever I hear someone talking about "Romanian beggars" as if they were ethnic Romanians, I simply have to correct them

You are doing Lord's work, my friend!

[Robocop]

Robocop, thank you for defending us. But Dracula was a Szekler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_...r.27s_creation

"Count Dracula is an undead, centuries-old vampire, and a Transylvanian nobleman who claims to be a Székely descended from Attila the Hun."

Yeah I know but I was writing about Historical Dracul, Vlad, and his influence from historical point of view on development of Bram Stoker's Character, in that aspect even Stoker's Dracula is Romanian, I just cannot imagine Count Dracula as Hungarian in novel or movies lol, cannot imagine it, especially having in mind the movie from Coppola; 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola shown him totally as Romanian, totally, even the intro into movie mentions Romania, exactly Romania (Anthony Hopkins - Van Helsing speakin in intro).

So overall, ok, I read the novel ofcourse, and to be honest Stoker himself wasn't clear enough about Dracula fictional character, I think he tried to present him as both Hungarian with touch of Romanian, also in that period in Europe Transylvania was mysterious area of Europe, all sorts of legends were coming from there, and ppl didnt payed much attention whose region is it, it was; Transylvania.

But no one here can undermine the fact that Historical Vlad the Impaler (Dracul order) was Romanian, that was my point , and Vlad even went on Hungarians to attack them in Wallachia in alliance with Ottomans, even though Vlad himself hated Ottomans, even though he was raised in Istanbul because his father gave him and his brother there as promise he will never attack Ottomans, but Vlad was learning in Ottoman Empire all military knowledge of Ottomans because he hated Ottomans from his childhood, his brother didnt, but he did, after he came back to Wallachia he went totally ape on Ottomans to the point that Ottomans were scared of him, called him as DEVIL HIMSELF, because in one event he killed around 5 000 turks in a way that he placed them alive on sticks, made entire "wood" of turks on sticks, so when Ottoman army saw that they ran away like mad...

Also Vlad was boiling Ottomans alive, omg...

In some way one could say that Vlad the Impaler was a Hitler of 15th century lol , I like to call him that way. lol.

He was even more mad than Hitler, Hitler was a kittie for him lol, finally Turks captured Vlad, but his legend became myth, and that's why Stoker took him for his character, this is the real story and the only true story about Vlad .