What was the identity of Vlad the Impaler, I mean in a "National" sense?
He's memed as a Romanian figure but looking at the damned map, Transylvania was under the rule of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was fuckhuge at the time.
Shouldn't he be seeing himself as a Hungarian Noble as opposed to a Romanian one? Given that Romania wasn't a thing at the time?
Does it matter?
>>1277133
He saw himself at the "Lord of Transylvania." Applying nationalities at the time would be useless.
Transylvania is under the Hungarian Kingdom alright, but is the home of Szekelers, Hungarians, Romanians, and the odd Saxon. It's pretty multiethnic.
>>1277133
>implying nation states existed at that time
>>1277133
Romania wasn't a thing back then,but the principality of Wallachia certainly was and he was her uncontested ruler.
>>1277133
He was a sweet transvestite.
>applying the concept of a nation state to a medieval voivode
He was Wallachian.
Modern national identities do not work with medieval figures. No such conception would exist for him.
>>1277133
Well, he ruled Wallachia, where the state language was Old Church Slavonic, but the popular language was Romanian. In the state language the principality was called Wallachia, but in popular language it's name was Teara Rumineasca (Romanian land). So I guess he could be considered a Romanian, but people at that time cared more about religion than about nationality anyway.
