What is the difference between Vampir and Dracula?

Dracula, the Stocker's myth. Stoker came across some information about vampire beliefs in Transylvania which he used in the novel. But Stoker did not make up the name "Dracula". Every myth has an origin somewhere in the reallity. There was a real Dracula, not a vampire ofcourse, in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian language), descended from Basarab the Great, a fourteenth-century prince who is credited with having founded the state of Wallachia, part of present-day Romania. This name, from the Turkish nickname "kaziklu bey" ("impaling prince"), was used by Ottoman chroniclers of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries because of Vlad's fondness for impalement as a means of execution. In 1431, the senior Vlad (the futher) received a honor: the initiation into the Order of the Dragon. Vlad then took on the nickname "Dracul". The Wallachian word "dracul" was derived from the Latin "draco" meaning "the dragon". The younger Vlad adopted the name "Dracula" indicating "son of Dracul" or "son of the Dragon". Vlad Dracula is the name he liked to use about himself, most probably and not Vlad the Impaler. Stocker who never visited Wallachia came across his name in a book he was researching entitled AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPALITIES OF WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA (1820). Those are the two Draculas.

Dracula is a fictional character created by author Bram Stoker. Vampires in general though are a part of Eastern European folklore. The Eastern European vampire is not at all like the romanticized Dracula that has spawned the modern day fictional vampires. The old folkloric ones are bloated corpses that usually prey on family members and not the dashing, charming, count that the Dracula character was supposed to be. As my father's side of the family was from Transylvania I spent a lot of time reading about vampires as a kid.