Polidori's The vampyre and the dangers of philhellenism to Italian liberation
J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich (1867)
Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Treaty of Berlin (1878)
Bram Stoker's The lady of the shroud and the Bosnia crisis (1908-09)
The vampires of Illyria : Nodier, Mérimée, and the French occupation of the Dalmatian coast
Jules Verne's Le château des Carpathes (1892) and the Romans of Transylvania
Appendix: Translations from Mérimée's La Guzla
Short chronology of relevant events.