How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…It is clear that when Bram Stoker was creating the character of count Dracula, he used the information he had from the Hungarian orientalist Ármin Vambéry, who was a native of the multicultural Hungarian (now Slovak) town of Svätý Jur and studied in the other Slovak cities — Dunajská Streda and Bratislava. …”
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