Famous people from the Balkans

Yeah I read about him. He wasn't the ruller of Transylvania, which was under Hungarian rule then, but of Walachia.

Among other things, he fought with Hungarians against the Turks in Bosnia in 16th century.

I also read that he was the founder of Bucarest. Is that true ?

it is not quite scientific but this is how I know (excuse my english):

Vlad Tepes was born in 1431, Sighisoara (Transilvania, under Hungarian rule, indeed). His father was Vlad Dracul who was assigned to be the governor of Transilvania by Sigismund (Zsigmond in Hungarian) the emperor of Hungary. He also was the grandson of an another great "voievod" of Wallahia: (a kind of a king, but not exactly) Mircea cel Batran (Mircea the Old). In 1436 his father becomes the prince of Wallahia and he settles down in Targoviste the capital of Wallahia. Vlad Tepes goes with him together with his younger brother: Radu. In 1442 for political reasons the two brothers are taken prisoners by Murad, Sultan of Turkey. He was set free when his father was killed by a contracandidate at the wallahian throne. At 17 years Vlad Tepes supported by a turk cavalry loaned from a turk pasa: Mustafa Hassan, came back to Wallahia to conquer the throne and to revenge his father. In 1456 finally he succeeds, and revenges his father in a quite brutal way. He gathered all the "boier" (nobles) and their families who participated at the assassination and killed them in various ways: unfortunatelly i don't know the words in english for his methods: only the word for his favourite: impale, - impaler. He became famous for his ingenious methods :)
In 1462 he launched a campaign against the turks like the most of the rulers of his time (and after him for 300 years :( ) in the Balkans. He managed to horrify the turk invaders with his intimidation methods, he welcomed them in the capitol (Targoviste) when they managed to fight till there, with the dead head of 20.000 turk prisoners. The turks withdrawned an Mehmed Sultan left the second part of the battle to be fought by Radu,the younger brother of Vlad Tepes, his favourite to the throne. Tepes escaped from the capitol, and fled to Transilvania where he was taken prisoner and locked in Visegrad the capitol of Hungary. He stayed 12 years in Hungary and after converting to catholisism he was set free. In 1476 he went back to Wallahia with Transilvanian and Moldovan help. His reign only lasted for six month when he was killed on the battlefield fighting against the turks. He was decapitated and his head was taken to Constantinopole as a proof of his death.

Maybe we should have a vote. Do we vote Moldova off the peninsula or let it stay?

BTW, I do think Slovenia will most likely become the intellectual capital of Europe and even suprass The Sorbonne in Paris.