[Sca-cooks] Cooking with Bonzer- or, Adventures in ModernCooking

[Terry Decker]

>t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>> I haven't researched it, but Vlad mayhave been of Magyar descent.  Magyar
is
>> a Finno-Ugric language rather than a Slavonic one.
>
>Being from Wallachia he was defiinitely Romanian.  For some reason he has
>gotten associated with Transylvania, even though all he ever did was raid
>into the area.
>
>Noemi

No, he was Wallachian.  Romania did not exist until 1861, did not become
independent until 1878 and was only proclaimed a kingdom in 1881.

Transylvania and Wallachia were part of the area which came under Magyar
influence during the early Middle Ages.  Wallachia became an independent
principality late in the 13th Century.  Given the history of the region,
Vlad's family may have been of Magyar origin, a point which I have not
researched.

Bram Stoker was the one who claimed him for Transylvania.

Bear