About the project Dracula - The truth

Dracula - Myth and Real History

This might seem an utopia: a project aiming to present Vlad Dracula's life, the medieval Transylvania of XV-th century, what is true and what is only imagination about Vlad The Impaler and the medieval age when he lived.
However, the idea came closely to my mind while searching some real information about Vlad III the Impaler. It's not about scarcity of the information that I was surprised, but the difficulty to find only the truth, not the mythology around, as well as details about the places, the people of that age, etc.

My ideas might change in time, but what I have in mind right now is grouping the information in few big groups:

1. Vlad III Dracula. It's life, as detailed as possible. Information about impaling people in that era, the wars, etc.

2. Medieval Transylvania & Wallachia. My idea is we cannot really understand all details if we don't try to contextualize the facts. How was people's life, how were the medieval towns what did they looked like, what about the medieval church ? What about education ? But the food ?

3. Dracula's myth, the connection with Bram Stoker's novel, the vampires - did they really exist ? The idea will be a clear distinguish between myth and reality.

4. That places nowadays: South Eastern Transylvania, Wallachia, Bran Castle, Poienari Castle, Târgovişte, Snagov, Bucharest, etc.

5. Media library: pictures, movies, songs, etc

6. Documentation. All good information sources I can find: books about Dracula and about medieval eastern Europe, websites, magazine articles, eBooks, etc.

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A short history of Wallachia up to Vlad's reign
The history of the country laying south to Carpathians, up to the Danube and to the Danube Delta, in East, starts by the end of the XIII-th century. The Black Prince run away from it's feudal duchy, Făgăraş and shelters South to Carpathians. That happens because the duchy was given to Ugrinus, a Hungarian noble, by the king of hungary Andrew III. Read more ...