#Tirgoviste

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Vlad Dracul's Palace, Tirgoviste, Romania by Simon Marsden (1948 –2012)

[human-antithesis]

Kaziklu Bey (The Lord Impaler)

Lyrics: Kaziklu Bey - Devils son Chosen one

After the fourth crusade all christian piety is gone And the greatest commander against the muslim turks you have now become

Kaziklu Bey - Stormbringer of fright Now show the world your might

Impale you every foe with delight And let the frail decend into eternal night Gather your armies for the decisive fight Your elite state is now in sight

Storming in fury with ten thousand men To teach the muslims a lession again In the port of Giurgiu their ambush will fail To Wallachia in chains the turks now grow pale With poles through their bodies they all now will die And the sultan Muhammed in anguish will cry

At the forthcoming winter the war since long planned To spread the religion which the turks banned Went on all the way to the Black sea Where overwhelming armies forced Dracul to flee

Kaziklu Bey - Lord of blodshed The infidel you dismembered

Rise and conquer with your army you people from the turkish yoke liberated After the battle at Giurgiu the deathfigure was 23809 turkish ears, noses and heads

By poison the wells and burning the land Dracul only left ashes to the men from the sand While the peasants joined Dracul the turks heard the cry Of wolves and only saw vultures in the sky

At the "terror night" Dracul striked the starved turks And killed thousand and thousand to complicate their works Next morning the turks found Tirgoviste in flames And a forest of Impaled men with turkish names

The the sultan gave up his conquering plan "What can we do against such a man?"

[hauntingreveries]

[raynakingston]

Me in front of Vlad’s Chindia Tower in Târgoviște, Romania. Cannot wait to visit this again. Soon the third installment of #thepassionofthedragonsaga will be available!!! #romania #tirgoviste #vlad #vladtepes #vladtheimpaler #chindiatower #vladdracula #vladdracul #carpathianmountains #oncewashome #erdenia #erzsebet #lovetriangle #writerscommunity #writersofinstagram #authorlife #authorsofinstagram #readersofinstagram

[helenalwrites]

Two years ago today, we explored Tîrgoviște, România 🇷🇴 along with Chindia Tower and The Princely Court on our adventures to look back on the life of Vlad the Impaler. This location is one @raynakingstonauthor and I write about in The Passion of the Dragon Saga. It's one of Vlad's actual castles and located in his Capitol city. It was so wonderful to travel back in time to experience this. I can't wait for us to go back. We're still hard at work on the third book in the series, Souls Ignited, which has had to be delayed until 7/24/18 for many reasons. We can't wait to share more of the story of Vlad, Erzsébet, and Erdenia with you all! Look for Souls Ignited next summer from @kcl_publishing! #memories #romania #travel #visitromania #tirgoviste #targoviste #vladtheimpaler #vladtepes #chindiatower #theprincelycourt #castle #vladdracula #dracula #draculascastle #thepassionofthedragonsaga #history #historicalplaces #historicalpeople #writersofinstagram #writerscommunity #research #authorsofinstagram #writersofig #visitinghistory #historicalplacestovisit #throwback

[worldmach1]

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[vladdocs]

Dracula's Life from 7 to 14 - Part 1 By Lyzhina Svetlana Sergeevna (Лыжина Светлана Сергеевна) Original in Russian: http://samlib.ru/l/lyzhina_s_s/dracula_7_14_1.shtml Annotation: Dracula's life from age 7 to 14 is the darkest period in his biography. Most authors do not even try to look into this darkness, but jump straight from childhood in Transylvania to the Turkish captivity, mentioning growing up as far as it goes. I will not, however, do so... The period from age 7 to 14 is important primarily because this is when Dracula began to realize himself as a Romanian. Before the age of 7, the world is pretty narrow for a person: mom, dad, grandparents and other relatives. Before the age of 7, a child does not really care about his own nationality, because he does not yet fully understand what it is. But after the age of 7, the horizons widen, and such notions as "small motherland" and "big motherland" appear. Dracula saw his Romanian homeland for the first time when he was about 7 years old, and, apparently, this first meeting made a strong impression on him. First time in his homeland In the summer of 1436, Dracula's father took over the Romanian throne and moved his family from Sighisoara to Tirgoviste, the Romanian capital of that time, no later than the fall of the same year. As a result, the life of the 7-year-old Dracula changed abruptly: 1) he now heard Romanian speech not only from his household, but also from everyone around him. 2) Home services were replaced by visits to the temple, rich and beautiful, and the services there were conducted to the highest standard, as a well staged theatrical performance. 3) The attitude of those around him changed. Everybody bowed to little Dracula like to the king's son, and even his peers, 7-year old boys like him, were obliged to bow. 4) the way of life changed - many new servants appeared, and the dwelling became much more spacious. _ _ _ _ Historical note: The house in Sighisoara was relatively small - 25x11 m in length and width, if we do not count the inner courtyard and the side passageway. At the same time the palace in Targoviste in the mid 1430s was 32x29 meters in length and width. It is not difficult to calculate that in terms of area it was almost twice as big as the house in Sigishoara. And that again without taking into account the adjoining territory enclosed by a fortress wall of 250x20 m. On this territory there was a temple built specially for the prince and his courtiers, as well as household premises. In addition there were extensive gardens and vegetable gardens, as well as ponds for trout breeding. They were necessary because the palace regularly hosted feasts at which enormous quantities of all kinds of food were eaten. _ _ _ _ We cannot say whether Dracula accepted his new life with delight or was embarrassed, but the boy saw the mood of his parents, who were clearly happy about what was happening. This should have led the child to believe that he, too, should be happy. Intensified Learning The only thing that definitely did not make little Dracula happy was his studies, because after he moved to Targoviste, his education was taken seriously. In textbooks on the history of pedagogy, you can read that all countries that have adopted the culture of the Byzantine Empire, along with Orthodoxy, adopted the system of teaching children. Romania is no exception in this sense. As in all other Orthodox countries, teaching followed the principles formulated by John Chrysostom: 1) simplicity of life, without excesses (so that the child would not fall into a dependence on comfort); 2) education with an emphasis on spiritual values (and contempt for material things); 3) strict control (parents watch where the child goes, what he/she does, what he/she says) 4) possibility of corporal punishment in case of disobedience (Chrysostom suggests "flogging"). Education had three levels: primary, secondary, and higher. They began to study (I repeat) at the age of 6-7 years old. Primary education was completed before the age of 12. Secondary education was

completed at the age of 17. It turns out that Dracula never received a higher education, because he was sent to the Turks at the age of about 14. No one in Turkey followed the Byzantine system of education. Dracula's higher education was replaced by lessons in the Turkish language and Turkish customs... But back to Dracula's elementary education. Elementary School Elementary education included four subjects: - arithmetic (counting on fingers, on pebbles, and in mind), - grammar (in this case Slavonic), - rhetoric, - philosophy (philosophy in the Middle Ages was perceived as the first step toward the study of "higher philosophy" - theology). The process of teaching itself was a little different from today - the children sat together, but each student was taught separately by the teacher. The grammar was taught on the basis of the texts of the Holy Scriptures and the lives of the saints. Rhetoric was modeled on the works of the same John Chrysostom. In the beginning, during the lessons of rhetoric children were supposed to retell the contents of texts and tell them by heart, and when children accumulated enough knowledge, the teacher arranged eloquence contests between pupils, where they were supposed to support their words with appropriate quotations. It is difficult to say whether Dracula competed with his elder brother, because the practice of competitions existed only in Byzantium, but, for example, in Russia such competitions did not exist. In addition, all forms of rivalry between Dracula and his older brother should have been opposed by the tutors, because in the family of Dracula on the paternal line practiced a special system of state management - the king had a co-helper in the person of the younger brother. About this writes researcher M.Kazaku. Dracula's grandfather Mircea the Old was at one time co-ruler of his elder brother Dan, and when his brother died, Mircea ruled alone. Dracula's father, Dracul Sr. was at one time co-ruler of his older brother Mihai, and when Mihai died, Dracul Sr. ruled alone. Dracula himself must also have been indoctrinated from a young age to be his brother's helper. An assistant, not a rival! All training and education of Dracula should be subordinated to this idea - Dracula should be prepared to help his brother and carry out all his orders, and in case of his brother's death he should continue his work. That is to say, he should continue it, and not do anything on his own! Dracula could think of no other fate, for he had before him the example of his father and grandfather, and in the Middle Ages the power of tradition was unusually strong. Apparently, when Dracula was sent as a hostage to the Sultan, he was encouraged by the same words about the need to help the elders: "Living with the Sultan, you will help your father and older brother a lot. And Dracula must have believed it, but later, when his father and older brother died suddenly, Dracula could not immediately get his bearings. He found himself in a role as an older man for which he was not at all prepared. He had no time to be instructed what to do and how to do it, so he had to decide everything on his own, to break his usual worldview and generally learn to be a leader... But here we are, once again, off-topic. Middle School According to the Byzantine system, the secondary level of education included the study of three new subjects: geometry, music, astronomy. Geometry, Dracula and his brother, of course, studied. In addition, it is known that as early as the 11th or 12th century, a collection of quotations from Aristotle about mathematics appeared in Slavic. These quotations together formed a coherent system, so that children in Slavic countries studied from this collection as from a textbook. Music in those days meant learning church singing, but it is unlikely that Dracula and his brother had time for that, because the Byzantine educational system in the Middle Ages did NOT include physical training, and sovereign's children needed this training. The physical training in the case of Dracula and his

brother was military training, where the pupil had to master 3 skills: 1) the ability to fight on foot; 2) the ability to fight on horseback; 3) the ability to command an army so as to lead it to victory. Perhaps the list of disciplines Dracula had to study after the age of 12 also included history and politics. Perhaps, the list also included Latin, but here we can not say anything for sure, because according to the Byzantine system of education all this (Latin, history, politics) belonged to the higher level of education, which, as we know, due to a number of tragic circumstances Dracula did not reach. Practical results of "Byzantine" education In a number of articles about Dracula one can read that he was supposedly a savage and ignorant - a kind of Neanderthal, but not with a club, but with a stake, who got an idea of culture only thanks to the years spent in "enlightened" Turkey. However, all this is nonsense! Dracula was educated before Turkey, and everything I've said here about the Byzantine system of education used in Romania for the education of the sovereign's children - not just a guesswork. All of this is confirmed in historical documents. From the texts that have survived from the time of Dracula, we can see that the Romanian rulers were literate people, read spiritual literature and were able to speak beautifully. For example, the beginning of the charter from May 20, 1388, which was dictated by the grandfather of Dracula, Mircea the Old. This charter is a gift to the monastery, but before going on to enumerate what will be given to the monastery, the prince reasons about God as well as a theologian: "Whom the Spirit of God guides, they are the sons of God, says the holy apostle, and to him echoes every one who values truth and does good works, desiring to receive eternal life - to leave earthly things on earth for the reward in heaven. Blessed are those who have heard the good voice, for they hear it always: "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. In the same way, I, believing in Christ God and Christ-loving and autocratic voivode and lord of all the land of Ugrovlakh, <...> as much as I can, want to follow this voice and glorify God, who glorified me and in glory enthroned me on the throne of my parents". That's how he bent it! Here are the results of the rhetoric lessons, which were part of the first level of education according to the Byzantine system! No wonder that everyone liked these words of Mircea. It is no coincidence that in his letter of December 12, 1424, uncle of Dracula, Prince Dan II, reproduces them, and then another relative of Dracula, Prince Alexander Aldea, does the same in his letter of June 25, 1436. Dracula himself quotes this statement in his charter of April 16, 1457. And here is how Dracula's father weaves verbal lace in his letter of August 2, 1439: "And who dares <... > violate my approval and command, such let the Lord God strike with his terrible and just judgment, and let the Holy Lady of the Theotokos speak against this man, and let him be damned on behalf of the seven holy ecumenical councils, and let him be counted among those who, like Judas and Arius, denied the Lord, and all those who betrayed the Lord to death". Of course, many edicts in those days ended with a standard curse on possible violators, but Dracula's father added to this curse, which most modern readers can appreciate only after they look in an encyclopedia. Can you tell at a glance what "ecumenical councils" and "Arian heresy" are? But Dracula's father could! And, apparently, he knew church history. That is, he was highly educated. As for Dracula himself, we can judge the level of his education by his statements, which, of course, distorted by numerous retellings, but the essence remains. For example, the episode with the Turkish ambassadors who did not remove their headdresses under the pretext that the "law" forbade. "And I want to follow your law," says Dracula, "so that you may hold fast to it. In doing so, he almost quotes

the Gospel, which says, "I have not come to break the law, but to fulfill it." And think of the burned beggars: "...I delivered them, so that they would not suffer in this world from poverty or from disease. The very course of Dracula's reasoning leads us to believe that this ruler in his time studied both the Holy Scriptures and rhetoric. Travels around the country In addition to "book sciences" and "warfare" in Dracula's education was one more component, and a very important one - study tours around the country, i.e. in Romania. However, Dracula had to perceive these trips in a different way than his older brother, because the older brother was prepared for the role of a ruler, and Dracula - for the role of an assistant to the ruler. Dracula's older brother perceived cities, villages, fields and forests as his future property. Dracula, seeing all the same, perceived it as his brother's property to be protected. If Dracula's older brother thought, "All this exists for me - for my needs and my pleasure," then Dracula thought, "I must take care of the preservation of it all. This is why in Dracula's behavior when he reached adulthood we find a motive not at all characteristic of the rulers of that time - the motive of service to one's country. Dracula was not brought up as a ruler, so even when he became a ruler, he did not get rid of the attitude that was hammered into his head throughout his childhood and adolescence - you were born to serve and help. He did all those things he did - eradicating crime, winning favourable trade conditions for Romanian merchants, waging war against the Turks - not for himself and not even for specific people. He did it all for Romania, which he called his "patrimony," not in the sense of his ownership of the land, but in the sense of his concern for it. This is how Dracula's notion of homeland was formed, which was Romania, although his early childhood took place in Transylvania.

[plots-and-prompts]

Inspiration From Trivia #6

More vampire trivia for the spooky season!

Prehistory: vampire beliefs and myths emerge in cultures around the world 1047: First appearance, in the written form, of the word “upir” (early form of the word “vampire”) in a document referring to a Russian prince as a wicked vampire 1190: Accounts of vampire like beings in England 1428-29: Vlad Tepes, the son of Vlad Dracul, is born 1436: Tepes becomes Prince of Wallachia and moves to Tirgoviste  1442: Tepes is imprisoned with his father by the Turks 1443: Tepes becomes a hostage of the Turks  1447: Dracul is beheaded  1448: Tepes briefly attains the Wallachian throne. Dethroned, he goes to Moldavia and befriends Prince Stefan 1451: Vlad Tepes and Prince Stefan flee to Transylvania 1455: Constantinople falls 1456: John Hunyadi assists Vlad to reobtain Wallachian throne 1459: Rebuilding of Dracula’s castle 1462: Following the battle at Dracula’s castle, Vlad flees to Transylvania again. He then begins 13 years of imprisonment  1475: Summer- wars in Serbia against Turks take place. November- Vlad resumes throne in Wallachia 1476-77: Vlad is assassinated 1560: Elizabeth Bathory is born 1610: Bathory is arrested for killing several hundred people and bathing in their blood. Tried and convicted, she is sentenced to life in prison  1614: Bathory dies 1645: Leo Allatius finishes writing the first modern treatment of vampires 1657: Fr. Francoise Richard links vampirism and witchcraft 1672: Wave of vampirism sweeps through Istra  1710: Vampire hysteria sweeps through Prussia  1725-30: Vampire hysteria lingers in Hungary  1725-1732: The wave of vampire hysteria in Austrian Serbia produces the famous cases of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paul (Paole) 1734: The word “vampyre” enters English language in translations of German accounts of the European waves of vampire hysteria 1750: Another wave of vampire hysteria occurs in East Prussia 1756: Vampire hysteria peaks in Wallachia  1772: Vampire hysteria occurs in Russia 1810: Reports of sheep being killed by having their jugular veins cut and their blood drained circulate through northern England 1847: Bram Stoker, author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula, is born.  1854: The case of vampirism in the Ray family of Jewett, Connecticut, is published in local newspapers 1872: In Italy, Vincenzo Verzeni  is convicted of murdering two people and drinking their blood 1874: Reports from Ceven, Ireland, tell of sheep having their throats cut and their blood drained 1897: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is published in England 1924: Fritz Harmaann of Hanover, Germany, is arrested, tried, and convicted of killing more than 20 people in a vampiric crime spree 1931: Peter Kürten of Dusseldorf, Germany, is executed after being found guilty of murdering a number of people in a vampiric killing spree  1992: Andrei Chikatilo of Rostov, Russia, is sentenced to death after killing and vampirizing some 55 people 1996: Members of a vampire “cult” led by Rod Ferrell are arrested for the murder of 2 people in Florida. They were subsequently tried and convicted of the murders

[projectourworld]

Good early morning from Romania. This is the road from Tirgoviste to the tiny village of Fracin. Mid winter and just as beautiful as ever

What's not to adore #winter #nature #projectourworld

[asexualbookbird]

i am really enjoying the AND I DARKEN trilogy (on book 2!!) but my problem is my knowledge of Vlad Depeche irl comes from watching the Transylvania specials of Ghost Adventures so every time they say "Tirgoviste" or "Vlad Dracul" i read it in Zak Bagans' voice

It adds a bit of nuance tbh

[philslattery]

Reprint: The Real Dracula's Castle -- Stop 2 of the World's Greatest Horror Locales

Reprint: The Real Dracula’s Castle — Stop 2 of the World’s Greatest Horror Locales

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula 1931

Bună dimineața!

I published this on my website a few years ago, but this morning I thought I would re-post just for my followers in Romania. Enjoy.  If you live in Romania or are from there originally, I would like to see your comments on this article. Tell me if I am on the spot or if I am off base.

The first thing you learn about the historical Castle Dracula is…

[blog-wandering]

Romania#brasov#bran#tirgoviste#dracula#instagram_photo_travel#sighisoaracity#europe#marco_iaconetti_journalist_drone_pilot_blogger#bucarest#timisoara#www.mywandering.com@marcoiaconetti (presso Romania)

[nettyvann]

#summer #storm #june #rain #dark #skies #outdoors #iosphotography #targoviste (at Tirgoviste, Dâmbovița, Romania)

[middleclassintellectual]

Channing Tatum megvalósította a legnagyobb álmomat és csinált egy román rendőrös sorozatot, ami 1983-ban játszódik.

Elküldtem neki az előbb a “Kovászna megye lordjai” c. forgatókönyvemet, amit hetedikben írtam, miután elolvastam egy könyvet a román forradalomról. A történet szerint Nicolae és Bogdan Petrescu Antonescu tábornok nevű Daciájukkal Tirgoviste külterületen sokszorosan borsot törnek a milicisták orra alá.

Köszönöm!

[levivian6443]

The horse ride from Tirgoviste, Wallachia to Edirne, Ottoman Empire. 

[seriallier]

Vlad Dracul's Palace, Tirgoviste - Romania © Simon Marsden