Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney

Transylvania, Romania, Dracula... What part did I miss?

Transylvania was no nation,
just temporarily a principality
and then a region that has been controlled
by various foreign rulers,
foreign war parties
and those just riding through to wreak havoc:

The Romans
The Huns
The Tartars (who nowadays only attack your tooth enamel)
The Magyars (Hungarians)
The Ottoman Empire (Turks)
The Habsburgs (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy)
The Nazis
The Russians
The Romanians (Ceausescu and then Lady Gymnasts)...

and do a google search for vampire. It isnt a US invention, dipshit.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~vampire/vhist.html

US hasnt been around since the 9th century..ya hole.

Link for Origin of Vampire http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=origin +of+vampire

(This comment was modified on Aug 07, 2008 02:18 PM)

you missed a hole lot!
the legends of vampires come from the american continent!

second: the association between Dracula and Vlad Tepes is a fake. his father was called Vlad Dracul because he earned the nobiliar title of the ordin of the water dragons as a result of merits he had in a confruntation.

besides even in the Bram Stoker Dracula is an hungarian nobil from transilvania.

Vlad Tepes lived and reigned in the region called "Muntenia" that is south of Transilvania and was not hungarian.

He's whole life he fighted against the turks and agains the unfainess in every day life, from theft to ilegal taxes to murder.

it is said that he had put a cup made of gold and with pretious gems on the side of a well so that everyone could use it to drink with it; it is also said that although everyone used to drink water no one darred to steal it, and when it was stolen everybody knew he died.

he was the kind of man who would punnish anyone who broke the law, even it they were family. In plus the executions of the turkish invadors (he liked to impale them) brought him a bad reputions from the cowardly polons and hungarians who did not dare fight the turks and who depended on him.

i mean think of the frustration of a big impare who was protected by the turks by the small army of state that was so little.

and strigoii have no fangs nor they drink blood , they are just supossed to drain of life force energy they're former family members and friends. and they are more like ghosts, they don't really have a physical form, they don't crawl from the grave.

plus they are associated with babies that are borned with a distinct sign considered in folklore to be evil (more like you incubus than an vampire)

Yo, Commie, Stop talking and read
However, the vampires we are familiar with today, although mutated by fiction and film, are largely based on Eastern European myths. The vampire myths of Europe originated in the far East, and were transported from places like China, Tibet and India with the trade caravans along the silk route to the Mediterranean. Here they spread out along the Black Sea coast to Greece, the Balkans and of course the Carpathian mountains, including Hungary and Transylvania.

Buh Bye

Romanians are just Bulgarians who don`t have the sense to make money by opening big resorts like golden sands and sunny beach.

we are not bulgarians !!!
bulgarians are an 80% procent slav people.
we, one the other are hand are 45% tracs 45 % romans and 10% slav. so there you have it!

i also see that romanians have no sense of humor.

not all!

just me!

plus... i remembered a joke

travel agency ad in Germany:
come visit Romania . your car is probably already here.

but seriously, roumanians are so ingenious that they can make money from anything!

have you not noticed that this is a fun site.you are boring us all now.

Very ingenious

CRIME: While most crimes in Romania are non-violent and non-confrontational, crimes do occur in which victims suffer personal harm. Crimes against tourists, including robbery, mugging, pickpocketing and confidence schemes, remain a problem in Romania. Organized groups of thieves and pickpockets, sometimes including minors, operate in train stations and on trains, subways, and buses in major cities. A number of thefts and assaults have occurred on overnight trains, including thefts from passengers in closed compartments. The Embassy recommends using the highest class available for train travel.

Money exchange schemes targeting travelers are common in Romania. Some of these ploys have become rather sophisticated, involving individuals posing as plainclothes policemen, who approach the potential victim, flash a badge, and ask for the victim's passport and wallet. In many of these cases, the thieves succeed in obtaining passports, credit cards, and other personal documents. Credit card and Internet fraud remain among the most common crimes affecting foreigners in Romania

Your little car theft joke..... not so much a joke!