Kingdom of Bosnia

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Kingdom of Bosnia
Bosansko kraljevstvo Босанско краљевство
←  1377–1463  →
Coat of arms
Medieval Bosnian State Expansion
Capital		Visoko Jajce Bobovac
Languages		Bosnian
Government		Feudal monarchy
King
-	1377–1391	Tvrtko I (first)
-	1461–1463	Stephen Tomašević(last)
Historical era		Middle Ages
-	Coronation of Tvrtko I	26 October 1377
-	Ottoman conquest	5 June 1463

The Kingdom of Bosnia (Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian: Bosansko kraljevstvo, Босанско краљевство) was a medieval kingdom that evolved from the Banate of Bosnia (1154–1377). Its extensive, region-wide socio-economic, political and cultural influence was of great effect in the later development of medieval Balkan states, and Balkan history in general.^{[1][page needed]} Bosnia enjoyed de facto independence in the 13th and 14th centuries despite nominal subjection to Hungary. Its difficult terrain and remoteness enabled the Bosnians to maneuver between their two powerful neighbors, Hungary and Serbia, usually managing to avoid subordination to either. Several capable rulers allowed Bosnia briefly to play the role of a great power in the 14th century. After 1290, Bosnia enjoyed virtual independence from Hungary and gained significant territory in Dalmatia at Serbia's expense. King Tvrtko I (reigned 1353–91) acquired portions of western Serbia and most of the Adriatic coast south of the Neretva river, and during the latter part of his reign, Bosnia briefly became the strongest nation in the Balkans peninsula. However, local separatism remained strong in Bosnia, and after his death the country lost its predominance. The Ottoman Empire annexed portions of eastern Bosnia in the 1440s and 1450s, and went on to conquer Herzegovina until the last fortress fell in 1481.^[2]

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Vampire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Vampire (disambiguation). Vampire The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897 Grouping Legendary creature Sub grouping Undead Similar creatures Revenant, werewolf Country Transylvania, England Region The Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa A vampire is a mythical being who subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures. In folkloric tales, undead vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 1800s. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe,[1] although local variants were also known by different names, such as vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to what can only be called mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism. In modern times, however, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra still persists in some cultures. Early folkloric belief in vampires has been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century.[2] However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula which is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, and television shows. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror genre.

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Lionsgate’s Ron Schwarts, exec VP and general manager of home entertainment, said in a statement:  “Consumer demand for ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2″ reflects strength in all segments of the home entertainment marketplace – packaged media, digital and on demand.  This is further proof that author Stephenie Meyer has created a timeless classic that moviegoers want to enjoy over and over in a wide variety of formats.”… 

“Timeless classic” my . . . Ahem. I’ll just say I’m not a fan of Twilight. And that’s me being generous. So stop reading here if you’re a fan. We’ll just agree to disagree. Keep reading at your own risk, Team Edward or Team whoever. Because the truth is, I DESPISE Twilight and everything it stands for. Stephenie Meyer watered down the lore and legacy of vampirism and whitewashed the sinister image of the undead, repackaging it as nothing more than a puddle-deep exploration of some teenage girl’s repressed libido and infantile romanticism, turning the bloodsucker of nightmare into a sparkling feeb prettier than the high school student he obsesses over.

Yes, Lestat was pretty, too, and Louis did his fair share of emo navel-gazing. But they still had at least some degree of the menace a vampire is supposed to have. Yes, even Dracula has sometimes been portrayed sympathetically, as a romantic interest. But he still had his aura of inhumanity, his innate darkness about him. Meyer has stripped the vampire of every ounce of fear, shorn and gelded the werewolf, turned the potent Horror genre into a sketchy version of something about as frightening as Sesame Street. Who’s with me?Wayne

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VAO13 Of The Most Successful Vampire Hunters

13  Hunters

Stories need heroes and villains, or at least a protagonist vying with an antagonist. Usually. When it comes to vampire stories, that nearly always comes down to come kind of vampire hunter. For your consideration, the following certainly rank among the top thirteen such:

1. Abraham Van Helsing

Originally a character inBram Stoker’s novel Dracula,this characterhas since appeared nearly as often as the titular Count! More, he’s spawned an entire clan of vampire hunters with the same last name  in such stories, films and t.v. shows as Young Dracula, Dracula: The Series, the Alex Van Helsing books and even Penny Dreadful.

2. Buffy Summers

Star of the t.v. series bearing her name (as well as motion picture), Buffy spent at least seven years slaying vampires as well as more than a few other kinds of monster, including two robots and at least one god. She was Joss Whedon’s ingenious flipping of a trope–the blonde cheerleader (up until then the obvious victim in every horror flick) against whom the forces of darkness fled in terror!

3. The Winchester Brothers

Supernaturaltells the tale of two brothers who spend their days and nights combating creatures that go bump in the night. This has led to some epic storylines, but for this article let us simply note Sam and Dean have successfully hunted not only a good number of vampires, but at least one who claimed to be the first of his kind! Along the way one of them even ended up a vampire (but he got better).

4. Vampire Hunter D

In a post-apocalyptic world many thousands of years in the future, the enigmatic man known only as D makes his way from town to town, across weird wastelands and deserted cities. His goal is to protect others, nearly always against the once-mighty nobles. Nobles in this context are vampires.

5. Blade

First a comic book, then a movie, then a t.v. series, then even more movies, we most likely have not heard the last of this character, another Dhampir but this one a native to our own time. Wesley Snipesevidently remains eager to play the role once more!

6. Frog Brothers

The motion picture Lost Boys eventually became a trilogy as well a run of comic books, focusing in general on the Frog Brothers. Imagine a pair of comic book nerds who take all those horror stories seriously then actually run into some real vampires! More, imagine they survived and went on to survive more adventures!

7. Angel

The (in-series) fulfillment of prophecy,Angel aka Angelus aka Liam was that rarity, a Vampire With A Soul. Introduced on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a mysterious helper, we slowly learned more about him. Eventually, the revelation that he himself was undead didn’t stop him from becoming a hero, even getting his own spinoff series. What made him especially heroic was his firm belief that all these good deeds made little difference in terms of his own fate. For all his prior deeds he remained convinced Hell awaited. Yet he went on, risking his life to save others.

8.Akasha

Although a vampire who personally destroyed a very impressive number of vampires herself, Akasha in the motion picture Queen of the Damned is not doing humanity any favors. She just wants to get rid of her lesser children, allowing a chosen few to help rule the human “animals.” This makes quite a change from the novel’s character, who destroyed vampires (and was going to kill the vast majority of men) for the sake of peace.  Either way, she wiped out all but a very few undead. A wildly successful vampire killer!

9.Abraham Lincoln

As fictional conceits go, this one contains more than a bit of charm. The sixteenth president of the United States re-imagined as a secretdestroyer of vampires (who naturally enough support the South in the Civil War).  A best-selling novel (which spawned a sequel), then a movie,Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter meticulously built up a back story to explain its premise. Young Abe saw his mother murdered by one of the undead, and gave him the motivation to grow and seek their final defeat. As a result, with the defeat of the Confederacy he broke their political power and toke away the human chattel they fed upon.

10. Mina Harker

Quite possiblyno other characterin Bram Stoker’s novel has been re-imagined in so many ways.  Little more than an intensely clever assistant to the men in the original story, everything changed in the silent classic Nosferatu when she ends up the one to lure Count Orlock to his doom. Not for decades did anyone make of her more than this, but in Bram Stoker’s Dracula she again gave the killing blow to the Impaler himself. In musical versions she does the same, more than once.  Comic books and other stories even give her a vampire-hunting career after that described in the classic novel!

11.General Spielsdorf

In Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla, this retired Austrian army officer avenged his niece’s death by hunting down the vampire who killed her. In subsequent film versions, he has sometimes gone missing (rather like Quincy Morris) but sooner or later he shows up once more.  Peter Cushing played the role in Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers. The character has turned up in radio versions, stage plays, as well as in the motion picture Styria.

12.Count Dracula

This name might surprise you, but it shouldn’t. Looking at all the various and extensive re-tellings and adaptations that expand on Dracula’s centuries of existence, he has destroyed more than a few of his own kind.

13. The Doctor

Bear with me for a moment. The title character in BBC’sDoctor Who has four times successfully battled powerful vampires. In “State of Decay” the fourth Doctor discovered the last remaining member of an ancient race of gigantic space vampires. In “Curse of Fenric” he vied against a horde of vampires created by a creature from the last days and nights of the dying Earth ages in the future. Since the series returned he beat a Plasmavore hiding on Earth, and thwarted plans to turn all of Renaissance Venice into a new colony of alien vampire creatures.

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David MacDowell Blue blogs at Night Tinted Glasses.  He graduated from the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is the author of The Annotated Carmilla. and Your Vampire Story (And How to Write It) as well as a theatrical adaptation of Carmilla.

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Vampire Timeline

730s CE
The Baital Pachisi, a collection of twenty-five fables surrounding Vikram the Vampire, is composed in Sanskrit by the scholar Bhavbhuti.

1047
First appearance of the word “upir” in a document referring to a Russian prince as “Upir Lichy”, or wicked vampire.

1196
William of Newburgh’s “Chronicles“. It records several stories of vampire like revenants in England.

1428
Vlad Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler, is born.

1477
Vlad the Impaler is assassinated.

1484
The Malleus Maleficarium, known as the witch hunter’s bible, is written by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The topic of how to hunt and destroy a vampire is discussed.

1560
Erzsebet (Elizabeth) Bathory is born.

1610
Elizabeth Bathory is tried and convicted of killing several hundred girls. Her sentence is life imprisonment.

1614
Elizabeth Bathory dies.

1645Leo Allatius, a cleric of the Greek Church, writes De quorundam Graecorum Opinationibus which contains explanations of thevrykolakas; the vampires.

1679
A German vampire text, De Masticatione Mortuorum, is written by Phillip Rohr.

1727-1732
Arnold Paole unleashes his vampiric terror on the town of Meduegna.

1734
The word “vampyre” enters the English language. 1748 – The first modern vampyre poem, “Der Vampir“, is published.

1813
A vampire appears in Lord Byron’s “The Giaour.”

1819
John Polidori‘s The Vampyre, is the first vampire story in English is published.

1847
Bram Stoker is born.

1872
In Italy, Vincenzo Verzeni is convicted of murdering two people and drinking their blood.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu publishes the novella Carmilla.

1892
The body of Mercy Brown, a Rhode Islander who died at 19 years old, is dug up and exhumed for suspicions of it being a vampire.

1897
Dracula by Bram Stoker is published in England.

1922
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, directed by F. W. Murnau is released in Germany. It is the unauthorized adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

1924
Fritz Haarmann the “Vampire of Hanover” is arrested, tried and convicted of killing more than 20 people in a vampiric crime spree.

1931
Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, is released.

1932
The movie Vampyr, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, is released.

1936
Dracula’s Daughter is released.

1943
Son of Dracula, stars Lon Chaney, Jr., as Dracula.

1954
Richard Matheson publishes I Am Legend, regarded as one of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century

1958
Hammer releases Dracula (UK) Horror of Dracula (USA) Christopher Lee’s first appearance in the role; first version of Dracula in color.

1960
Roger Vadim directs Blood and Roses, based on Carmilla.

1964
“The Munsters” and “The Addams Family”; television shows with vampiric characters.

1965
Jeanne Youngson founds The Count Dracula Fan Club.

1966“Dark Shadows,” a show featuring vampires, premieres.

1970
Sean Manchester founds The Vampire Research Society.

In Search of Dracula by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu is published.

Stephan Kaplan founds The Vampire Research Centre.

The “Highgate Vampire” incident and mass vampire hunt occurs in London.

Count Yorga – Vampire: released starring Robert Quarry.

1972
The Dracula Society is founded.

1976
The first of the Vampire Chronicles, Interview With the Vampire, byAnne Rice is published.

1979
Frank Langella stars in the remake of Dracula.

1980
Richard Chase, the so-called Dracula Killer of Sacramento, California, commits suicide in prison.

1985
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice is published and reaches the best seller list.

Original Fright Night is released.

1987
Near Dark, a vampire film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is released.

The first Lost Boys, a vampire film directed by Joel Schumacher, is released.

My Best Friend is a Vampire, a vampire comedy film directed by Jimmy Huston, is released.

1988
The Queen of the Damned is published by Anne Rice.

1991
Vampire: The Masquerade,” the vampire role-playing game is released by White Wolf.

1992Bram Stoker’s Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola opens.

Andrei Chikatilo of Russia, is sentenced to death after killing and vampirizing 55 people.

The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice is published.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, written by Joss Whedon is released.

1994
The film version of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire opens with Tom Cruise as the Vampire Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis.

1996

Kindred: The Embraced airs, a show based on the popular White Wolf RPG

1997

Buffy, a TV series about a vampire slayer, premiers.

The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike is published

1998
Blade is released into theaters.

Pandora by Anne Rice is published.

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice is published.

1999
Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice is published.

In the Forests of the Night, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is published, the first in her Den of Shadows series.

2003

Underworld, a film about vampires and lycans, is released.

2005

The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, is published.

Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Stalk the Night, by Bob Curran, is published.

Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, is published.

2007

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures Vol. 1, by Laurel K. Hamilton, is published.

Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing, by Gustav de Wolff, is published.

Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean, by Justin Somper, is published.

Blood Ties, a vampire TV series, premiers in the United States.

Moonlight, a vampire TV series, premiers in the United States.

2008

True Blood premiers on HBO.

Let the Right One In, a film adaptation of a 2004 novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, is shown at a film festival in Sweden.

Immortal: Love Stories With Bite, including vampire stories by Tanith Lee, Kristen Cast, Rachel Caine, and others, is published.

Bathory, a film about Elizabeth Bathory, is released.

2009

The Strain, a book by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, is published.

Mr. Darcy, Vampire, by Amanda Grange, is published.

By Blood We Live, a collection of vampire stories with contributions from authors such as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Tanith Lee, L. A. Banks, Garth Nix, and more, is published.

The Vampire Diaries, a TV series based on a book series by L. J. Smith, premiers on the CW.

Thirst, a vampire film, is shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where it received the Jury Prize.

The Vampire’s Assistant, the film adaption, is released.

How to Be a Vampire: A Fangs-On Guide for the Newly Undead by Amy Gray, is published.