15th century poltitcs and society in the area of Romania

It occurred to me that everyone could get more into the costume making process if they knew more about Dracula and the society in which he lived, but to truly understand Dracula you must understand the politics of the time.

Dracula spent his entire life trying to obtain and maintain the throne of Walachia. Walachia was a region south of Transylvania and north of Bulgaria.
The location of Walachia is the key to the political turmoil that took place in the 15th century. To the north was the great Hungarian empire, and to the south was the massive Ottoman Empire. Walachia’s proximity to these two great empires caused the king to perform a sort of balancing act trying to appease both kingdoms. The Hungarian kings wanted Walachia to fight the ottomans while the ottomans wanted Walachia to pretty much just step aside. The throne of Walachia was a dangerous position.

According to Walachia tradition the succession to the throne though heredity does not pass to the first born. Any son of the king could succeed the throne however the choice of which son did not lie with the family. That choice lied with the boyars (wealthy noblemen. because of this it made it possible to attain the throne through assassination. this coupled with the dangerous nature of the of the politics of the throne, meant that the life of a Walachia king was hardly ever very long.

That is all I will put for now next post I will tell about Vlad's father, the order, and maybe a brief history of Constantinople.

I want to appoligize for how the informationis presented I am tired and it shows.

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