Interesting stuff. BTW, Drac, I've always vaguely considered name "Tepes" to be Magyar in origin. Probably because of the "sh" at the end. :-) It's all hopelessly jumbled around here anyway. For instance, Tirgoviste, Dracula's capital, is basically the same as "trgoviste", Croatian (and Serbian?) word for a settlement where people come to buy and sell stuff. As an iteresting side note, the Stephan Bathory who's mentioned there - a prince of Transylvania and the king of Poland, who later relieved Vienna from a Turkish siege - is a member of the family which a century later gave the infamous Elisabeth Bathory. She's considered to be the source of the blood-drinking part of Dracula's legend. Her biography.

-- erlik