Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (20 October 1882 16 August 1956), better known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian American actor, famous for portraying Count Dracula in the original 1931 film and for his roles in various other horror films.

The historical Dracula, Vlad Tepes, was no vampire.

Most cities have to accept the authority of the Count but Marseille and Nice rebel.

that came after the novel they are referred to as the Brides of Dracula.

Count Johann Friedrich Struensee (5 August 1737 28 April 1772) was a German doctor.

Since the sixteenth century, Czar Ivan IV Ivan the Terrible was called the Russian Dracula.

The town soon rebelled against the rule of Roger Guiscard and was only recaptured after a long siege.

Paul Wesley had been offered the role of Count Paris, but it was announced in February 2012 that Tom Wisdom would play him.

The academy was founded in 1640 by Queen Christina of Sweden at the proposal of Count Per Brahe on base of Åbo Cathedral School (f. 1276).

He spent part of the time living at Paretz, the estate of the old soldier Count Hans von Blumenthal who was the governor of his brother Prince Heinrich.

Vlad Tepes was transformed into a vampire by the most famous of these stories Bram Stoker's novel Dracula in 1897.

The Manifesto was issued by Emperor Nicholas II, under the influence of Count Sergei Witte, on as a response to the Russian Revolution of 1905.

But why do we know about Dracula and vampires at all? Why and how did a regional myth grow into one of modern Western culture's most enduring fixtures?

Founded by Swedish statesman and Governor General of Finland Count Per Brahe the younger in 1649, it is one of 10 historic wooden towns (or town centers) remaining in Finland.

The man behind the idea was the infamous Swedish Count Gustaf Otto Douglas who had defected to the Russian side during the war and was in charge of the grim occupation of Finland.

Count Raffaele Cadorna (February 9, 1815 February 6, 1897) was an Italian general who served as one of the major Piedmontese leaders responsible for the unification of Italy during the mid 19th century.

I have a brother in law who's an expert on horror and terror he wrote the Annotated Dracula, the Essential Frankenstein he was trained as a Chaucer scholar, but he was born in Transylvania and I think it affected him a little bit.

A larger entity under the same name was then reestablished in the late 11th century and lasted until the mid 12th century, when its count elevated it into an independent Portuguese kingdom.

On 17 December 1952, Giscard married his cousin Anne Aymone Sauvage de Brantes, a daughter of Count François Sauvage de Brantes, who had died in a concentration camp in 1944, and his wife, the former Princess Aymone de Faucigny Lucinge.

We know these creatures' apotheosis, Dracula, as a vampire from Transylvania, a bat like person with long canine teeth who lies in a coffin during the day and bites necks and drinks blood for sustenance.

If the thought of Dracula and vampires makes us shiver, then the vampire myth still fulfills its functions for us as a projection of our fears and uncertainties, sexual desires, group and personal animosities, and longing for the dissolution of the structure of society.

The Florentine Camerata, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi, was a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama.

The Germans rejected the French offers because they considered the French overtures to be a trap to trick them into accepting the Versailles treaty as is and because the German foreign minister, Count Ulrich von Brockdorff Rantzau thought that the United States was more likely to reduce the severity of the peace terms than France.