Vlad the Impaler and the Legend of Dracula
Tides of History
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The Ottoman War in Anatolia
Vlad may have had genuine feelings about both religious war and the Ottomans. His upbringing may have left him with a real dislike of the powerful Muslim empire to the south. The details are lurid and brutal, but the sources say that Vlad had thousands of prisoners impaled. When an Ottoman envoy refused to take his turban off in Vlad's presence, Vlad took a hammer and a nail and nailed the turban to the head.
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