Wallachian rulers, like the Moldavian rulers, bore the titles of Voivode ("duke") or/and Hospodar ("lord, master") when writing in Romanian, the term Domn (from the Latin dominus) was used. The system itself was challenged by usurpers, and became obsolete with the Phanariote epoch, when rulers were appointed by the Ottoman Sultans between 18 (the date of Romania's independence), various systems combining election and appointment were put in practice.
On principle, princes were chosen from any family branch, including a previous ruler's bastard sons, being defined as os de domn, "of Voivode marrow", or as having heregie, " heredity" (from the Latin hereditas) the institutions charged with the election, dominated by the boyars, had fluctuating degrees of influence. Make sure you pick up a Songs of Dracula CD when you pass through the gift shop.This is a list of princes of Wallachia, from the first mention of a medieval polity situated between the Southern Carpathians and the Danube until the union with Moldavia in 1859, which led to the creation of Romania.ĭynastic rule is hard to ascribe, given the loose traditional definition of the ruling family. He's a 61-year-old retired banker and antiques dealer who is famous for turning his home into a beer garden and vampire museum, featuring "Blood Red" wine, a hearse and coffin museum, and, of course, hundreds of bats. The 21st-century Count Dracula is a hometown hero, but a little less remarkable. Vlad was infamous for feasting outdoors, among mounds of mutilated corpses. This Count Dracula has a little different style than his namesake - the Wallachian who relished torturing his enemies, driving sharpened poles though the bellies of disobedient subjects, heretics and unchaste women. "I want a maximum tax of no more than 20 percent." "In the Kingdom of Dracula, you'll find that tax collecting is much less of a pain in the neck," he told The Wolf Files, speaking through an interpreter.
"We could change 'I want to suck your blood' to 'I come to collect your tax arrears," says Ottomar Rudolphe Vlad Dracul Kretzulesco, who warmly embraces the moniker "Count Dracula."
Yes, several elected officials in Schenkendorf, with a population of 1,200, are backing him in his bid to secede from Germany and create a country with less bureaucracy and a more responsive government. Still, the last known relative of Vlad the Impaler, the medieval Romanian nobleman who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, says he's fed up with high German taxes, and he's got local support in his hometown outside Berlin to form a vampire paradise. You can probably imagine how long your wait would be at airport security if your passport read "Kingdom of Dracula."
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