Wallachia


Wallachia
Category:	Region
Region:	Southeast Europe
Continent:	Europe
Country:	Romania
Locale:	Transylvania
Points of interest:	Castle Dracula
Appearances:	Dracula

Wallachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians. Wallachia was founded as a principality in the early 14th century by Basarab I, after a rebellion against Charles I of Hungary, although the first mention of the territory of Wallachia west of the river Olt dates to a charter given to the voivode Seneslau in 1246 by Béla IV of Hungary.

In terms of film notability, Wallachia is best known as the stomping ground of everyone's favorite blood-sucking vampire, Dracula. Although Wallachia is almost never mentioned in any of the film adaptations of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, its appearance is implied as the location of Castle Dracula.

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Castle Dracula: Castle Dracula is the name attributed to any number of Eastern European fortresses located within the borders of Romania, Transylvania and Wallachia. As its name suggests, the castle is the residence of the infamous vampire known as Dracula. Different interpretations of the castle have been represented in horror fiction, but the original so-called Castle Dracula was actually Bran Castle, currently a national monument in Romania. In horror fiction, Castle Dracula has appeared in nearly every type of media relating to Dracula and is almost always situated in Transylvania.