There's more to Romania than the legend of Dracula, and this fairy tale village proves it. Championed by royals, this rural ...

In Romania, Vlad the Impaler is revered as a national hero. “Mostly, Romania exists because of him. If he hadn’t fought the Turks, Romania would be part of Turkey,” Alina Caldarariu said.

Also known as Vlad III, Vlad Dracula (son of the Dragon), and—most famously—Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian), he was a brutal, sadistic leader famous for torturing his foes.

Scientists think they've discovered where Count Dracula's final resting place is -- and, spoiler alert, it's not in Romania.

A Romanian lawyer linked to a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with a Russian military attaché in Bucharest to discuss overthrowing the government, Romanian prosecutors allege. Now ...

King Charles III is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century ruler of the Romanian region of Wallachia, famous for his namesake torture method.

According to Light, Romanian authorities did not actively encourage the narrative that the castle had a strong connection to either Vlad the Impaler or Stoker's Dracula.

The eponymous villain of Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel Dracula was partly inspired by a real historical person: Vlad III, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia (now southern Romania), known by the ...

The group, named “Vlad the Impaler Command” after Romania’s medieval ruler who served as inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, included a 101-year-old retired general named Radu Theodoru, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Romanian prosecutors have arrested six men on charges of treason for allegedly seeking Russian help for a plot ...

Romanian prosecutors have arrested six men on charges of treason for allegedly seeking Russian help for a plot to overthrow the government in Bucharest.. The group, named “Vlad the Impaler ...