In the shortest answer possible, why was Vlad Tepes...?

Question: In the shortest answer possible, why was Vlad Tepes!.!.!.!?

considered a dracula or what does he have to do with that kinda stuffWww@QuestionHome@Com

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Most authorities believe the character of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel was based upon the historical figure Vlad Tepes (pronounced tse-pesh), who intermittently ruled an area of the Balkans called Wallachia in the mid-15th century!. He was also called by the names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad the Impaler!. The word Tepes stands for "impaler" and was so coined because of Vlad's propensity to punish victims by impaling them on stakes, then displaying them publicly to frighten his enemies and to warn would-be transgressors of his strict moral code!. He is credited with killing between 40,000 to 100,000 people in this fashion!.

Origin of the name "Dracula"
King Sigismund of Hungary, who became the Holy Roman Emperor in 1410, founded a secret fraternal order of knights called the "Order of the Dragon" to uphold Christianity and defend the Empire against the Ottoman Turks!. Its emblem was a dragon, wings extended, hanging on a cross!. Vlad III's father (Vlad II) was admitted to the Order around 1431 because of his bravery in fighting the Turks!. From 1431 onward Vlad II wore the emblem of the order and later, as ruler of Wallachia, his coinage bore the dragon symbol!.
The word for dragon in Romanian is "drac" and "ul" is the definitive article!. Vlad III's father thus came to be known as "Vlad Dracul," or "Vlad the dragon!." In Romanian the ending "ulea" means "the son of"!. Under this interpretation, Vlad III thus became Vlad Dracula, or "the son of the dragon!."

Atrocities of Vlad Tepes
More than anything else the historical Dracula is known for his inhuman cruelty!. Impalement was Vlad III's preferred method of torture and execution!. Impalement was and is one of the most gruesome ways of dying imaginable, as it was typically slow and painful!.
Vlad usually had a horse attached to each of the victim’s legs and a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body!. The end of the stake was usually oiled and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp, else the victim might die too rapidly from shock!. Normally the stake was inserted into the body through the buttocks and was often forced through the body until it emerged from the mouth!. However, there were many instances where victims were impaled through other body orifices or through the abdomen or chest!. Infants were sometimes impaled on the stake forced through their mother's chests!. The records indicate that victims were sometimes impaled so that they hung upside down on the stake!. Vlad Tepes often had the stakes arranged in various geometric patterns!. The most common pattern was a ring of concentric circles in the outskirts of a city that was his target!. The height of the spear indicated the rank of the victim!. The decaying corpses were often left up for months!.
Thousands were often impaled at a single time!. Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu in 1460!. In 1459, on St!. Bartholomew's Day, Vlad III had thirty thousand of the merchants and boyars of the Transylvanian city of Brasov impaled!.
The list of tortures employed by this cruel prince reads like an inventory of hell's tools: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to wild animals, and burning alive!.
No one was immune to Vlad's attentions!. His victims included women and children, peasants and great lords, ambassadors from foreign powers and merchants!.

(This wasn't exactly a "short answer", but this man was so cruel, that a few sentences could not describe him totally!. In fact, the above is just part of the longer article at the website mentioned!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

He killed many people, villagers and poorer people!. He enjoyed impaling them in various, cruel ways!. He also once locked a church's doors when it was in service and burned it down, killing everyone inside!. He was an evil, cruel man!.

Bram Stoker probably based Dracula on Vlad by thinking of the most evil man possible!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Bram Stoker the person who wrote Dracula used the historical character as the basis for his novel, there is no other relation!. Vlad could be violent when necessary, he was know as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the impaler!. Dracula means son of the dragon!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Dracula - son of the dragon!.

Dracul - the dragon!.

Vlad Tepes father is known as Dracul!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

he did cruel, horrible things to villagers, like impaling them on pikes

he killed a number of peopleWww@QuestionHome@Com