What did other countries think about Vlad the Impaler back then? 🇷🇴
I gathered accounts from various countries about Vlad III, from the time when he was alive or shortly after his death
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🇷🇸 "Dracula, the Wallachian lord, crossed into Turkish lands and killed many, impaling them on stakes so that the sultan’s army fled in fear. He was a Christian fierce as a lion, and his name was spoken among us with awe."
Konstantin Mihailović (1490s), a Serbian Janissary
🇷🇺 "Dracula was a ruler of great might, and though his end was bitter, his fame endures. He was cruel, yet wise in war, and many feared him more than death itself."
🇷🇴 The Battle of Teișani between Wallachia and the Crimean Khanate in 1602
How a Tatar warrior challenged a Romanian commander to single combat, and why he shouldn't have done it, as it ended with his decapitated head being showcased in front ot the Khan's army
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In the summer of 1602, the Crimean Tatars, led by Khan Gazi Ghirai, invaded Wallachia.
This was likely ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III to punish Radu Șerban, the then Voievod of Wallachia, for his allegiance to the Habsburgs and to restore Ottoman influence.
The Khan's forces numbered around 30,000 Tatars while Radu Șerban, rallied a Wallachian army estimated at 15,000 men, including experienced boyars like Stroe Buzescu and his brothers, who had served under Michael the Brave the years prior.
10 Facts about Călin Georgescu that not everyone may know:
1. Călin Georgescu is an agronomist engineer and holds a PhD in pedology, the study of the properties of the soil
2. Georgescu is a black belt in Judo and became vice-champion of Romania and the Balkans in 1979 at the age of 17
He is also is a black belt in Shotokan Karate
3. He spent 17 years working as a diplomat in international organizations like the UN and the Club of Rome
Observing their degradation year after year, he left and became the maybe highest ranking diplomat ever to expose the malicious intent of these organizations to the public
Legionarism: How men became weak and gay, and why they must die in order to be born again
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The founder of the Legionary school, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, identified early on the ongoing feminization and godlessness of the modern man.
I think we were given an excellent example during the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Paris.
In Codreanu's opinion, the root of this problem was spiritual in nature and resulted from man abandoning God and the path of destiny He had laid upon him and his nation.