no.1. The Kingdom of Dracula
Dracula is an imaginary character that only appears in novels, but there are many people who claim to have seen her in real life. Dracula and vampires are identified today because this work has become so popular. Dracula, on the other hand, is completely different from vampires, and while vampires eat only women's blood.
Although Dracula's model is known as Vlad Chepeche, the Duke of Wallachia, from the region of Transylvania, Romania in the 15th century, the only thing they have in common is that Vlad's nickname, Dracula, and his country of origin are modern-day Romania. For example, Vlad is a Wallachian and Duke, but Dracula in this novel is a Countess of Transylvania's Zekely people. Also, Count Dracula does not call himself Vlad, and he has no anecdote that reminds him of Prince Vlad when he speaks of his past. When Bram Stoker was 43, he met Arminius Bamberi, an oriental language professor at the University of Budapest in Hungary, who was fluent in Central European history and civil wars, and after hearing about the Prince Vlad from him, he was attracted to the exotic nickname of Dracula and created the character, Count Dracula. Perhaps Stalker knew little more than the name of Prince Vlad and a brief anecdote related to it.
Rather, it can be said that the novel Dracula was strongly influenced by the Irish vampire legend and the same vampire work Camilla (1872) written before Dracula. In fact, the stage for Dracula's first edition was Austria, like Camilla, not Transylvania. Her beautiful appearance, noble class, and the habit of sleeping in a coffin during the day were similar factors to Camilla's later works on vampires.
Starting with Todd Browning's Dracula, which was released in 1931, Vlad Chepesh = Dracula is believed to have settled down as dozens of Dracula-related films were being produced and a setting reminiscent of a ball Vlad. Dracula's exterior image, such as his all-back hairstyle and black cape, is also the influence of this film.
The novel was translated into Romanian in 1990, after the end of the communist regime in 1989, and until then, Count Dracula was unknown in Romania. There is no vampire legend even in Transylvania. Regarding Prince Vlad, there is no record, legend, or transmission similar to a vampire. In various movies, Dracula's model, Prince Vlad, appears to have lived in Transylvania, but he actually lived with a castle in Wallachia and never lived in Transylvania. Most of the castle in Vlad was demolished and only traces remain, but the existing Bran Castle in Romania is incorrectly known as the castle of Prince Vlad. However, Bran Castle is said to have almost the same structure as that of Prince Vlad.
There are two conflicting local positions on the fact that Dracula's model is Prince Vlad. Some people like it to be used for tourism, while others are displeased with treating the hero of their country as a monster.