"In the year of Our Lord 1462 once Dracula came to the large city of Schylta [Nicopolis], where he had more than 25,000 people of all kinds of ethnic groups killed, Christians, pagans, etc. Among them were the most beautiful women and maidens, who had been taken captive by his courtiers. They begged Dracula to give them to them as honorable wives. Dracula did not want to do this and ordered that all of them together with the courtiers should be cut up like cabbage. And that he did because he had become obliged to pay tribute to the Turkish sultan, who had demanded tribute from him. Immediately Dracula let his people know that he wished to give over the tribute personally to the sultan. The people there were overjoyed, so he let his people come to him in large groups one after the other and he let all his courtiers ride with him. And then he had these people all killed. Also he had the same region called Pallgarey [Wulgerey] completely burned. He also had others nailed by their hair and in all there were 25,000 not counting those whom he had burned."
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Translation by Raymond T. McNally of MS. no. 806 at the Monastery Library of St. Gall, Switzerland. Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu, Radu, In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends (Greencwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972) Appendix I
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Vlad the Impaler
1456 – 1462
Vlad III (commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, Romanian: Vlad Țepeș, or Vlad Dracula, Vlad Drăculea; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He was regarded as a hero in Romania due to his opposition to the Ottoman Empire and he is considered an important ruler in Wallachian history. Books describing Vlad's cruel acts were among the first bestsellers in the German-speaking territories. His patronymic inspired the name of Bram Stoker's litera
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