Reign of Vlad the Impaler
1456–1462 · Event
Vlad III's main reign over Wallachia: boyars and Ottoman envoys impaled by the thousand, tribute to the sultan refused — until Mehmed II's invasion drives him into Hungary, where Matthias Corvinus imprisons him.
On these timelines: Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey
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