The prince of Wallachia Vlad IV is known as “Kazikli Voyvoda” means piled prince in Turkish. He was a very cruel ruler and he tyrannised especially the Turks. He was the son of Prince Dracula. He fought against the Ottomans in the sultanate of Mehmed the Conqueror. He killed Turkish captives by torturing and impaling them. By his cruelty, he left a bloody sign in the Balkans. He impaled Vidin Bey and Hamza Pasha. He tortured people unbelievably, for example; he had flayed the skins of captives and sprinkled salt on their bodies, made the goats lick the salt. He nailed the Turkish ambassadors’ turbans on their heads. He had had cut the nipples of the women and put the heads of their babies inside their breast. All these unbelievable torture methods are Vlad’s inventions. He was a wild ruler. Sultan Mehmed The Conqueror tried to catch him but he escaped. Finally in 1462, he was killed by one of his own soldiers.

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