Transylvania
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Transylvania is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. The region's natural border to the east and south is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west it is t
Kingdom of Hungary in 1190, during the rule of Béla III
Roman city of Apulum
A market scene in Transylvania, 1818
The National Assembly in Alba Iulia (December 1, 1918), declaring the Union of Transylvania with Romania
Dracula
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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens with English
Transylvania
…the end of World War II. In popular culture, Transylvania is commonly associated with vampires because of the influence of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and the many subsequent books and films that the story has inspired. Many Transylvanian Saxons were furious with Vlad the Impaler for strengthening the…
First edition cloth cover (1897)
Henry Irving is widely considered to have inspired Dracula.
Handwritten notes about the novel's characters
1899 first American edition, Doubleday & McClure, New York