Vlad Tepes Essay Examples

1428–1431

December 1476 – January 1477 (aged 45 – 49)

Vlad was a minor player during the early period of Ottoman domination of what is today Romania. He likely would have remained a historical curiosity known only to scholars of the region had it not been for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Stoker may have taken some inspiration from Vlad to create the archetypal vampire.