Vlad the Impaler Takes Wallachian Throne
1457
Vlad III Dracula, having spent years as an Ottoman hostage and Moldavian exile, seized the Wallachian principality with Hungarian backing. His brief reign would be remembered for the forest of impaled corpses outside Targoviste and a ruthless campaign against boyars and Ottoman raiders. His nickname meant Son of the Dragon.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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