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Dec 2021
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Vlad, el Empalador. El príncipe que insp...

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Vlad III, señor de Valaquia en el siglo XV, pasó a la historia tanto por su resistencia a ultranza contra los turcos en la actual Rumania como por sus cruentos castigos; cuatro siglos después, su nombre quedaría asociado a una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal, la novela Drácula, de Bram Stoker 
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