List of necropoleis
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A necropolis (Greek plural: necropoleis; Latin plural: necropoles) is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The term comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead". Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, it is chiefly used to refer to burial grounds near the centers of ancient civilizations, such as an abandoned city or town. The term "necropolis" is also occasionally used in fantasy fiction to describe a city overrun by undead.
Grave field is a term for prehistoric burial grounds that do not include any above-ground structures or markers. These include row graves, urnfields, tumuli, etc.
List of examples [edit]
Albania [edit]
Algeria [edit]
Austria [edit]
Australia [edit]
- Rookwood Necropolis (Sydney)
- The Necropolis, Springvale (Melbourne)
- Melbourne General Cemetery
Bosnia and Herzegovina [edit]
Bulgaria [edit]
- Varna Necropolis[4]
- Tuhovishta's Village Necropolis (Satovcha)
Canada [edit]
- Necropolis Cemetery - one of Toronto's oldest cemeteries
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (Montreal)
China [edit]
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Ming Dynasty Tombs
- Fengdu Ghost City
- Western Xia tombs
- Eastern Qing Tombs
- Western Qing Tombs
Colombia [edit]
Croatia [edit]
Cuba [edit]
Cyprus [edit]
Denmark [edit]
Egypt [edit]
France [edit]
- Alyscamps (Arles)
- The Panthéon (Paris)
- Père Lachaise Cemetery (Paris)
- Saint Denis Basilica (Saint-Denis)
Germany [edit]
- Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Hamburg)
- Oldendorfer Totenstatt - concentration of Neolithic megalith graves
- Soderstorf Necropolis - site with above-ground graves from several periods of history
Guatemala [edit]
Indonesia [edit]
Iran [edit]
- Naqsh-e Rustam Tombs Achaemenid Kings circa 500 BCE
Iraq [edit]
- Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf. It's reputed to be the largest cemetery in the world.[6]
Ireland [edit]
Israel [edit]
Italy [edit]
- Bologna
- Cerveteri
- Gaudo, Paestum
- Lipari (Aeolian Islands)
- Locri
- Children's Necropolis of Lugnano in Teverina
- Monterozzi
- Norchia
- Pantalica
- Pezza Petrosa, Grottaglie
- Taranto
Latvia [edit]
Lebanon [edit]
Macedonia [edit]
Malaysia [edit]
Malta [edit]
Mexico [edit]
- Panteon de Belen
- Panteón de Dolores
- El Castillo & High Priest's Temple in Chichen Itza
- Pyramids of the Sun, the Moon and Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan
Morocco [edit]
Pakistan [edit]
- Makli Hill (Thatta)
- Chaukundi Near (Karachi)
Peru [edit]
Poland [edit]
Philippines [edit]
Russia [edit]
Serbia [edit]
- Karaburma
- Krajčinovići, Bronze Age
- Bukovac, Illyrian graveyards[8]
- Golubac, Illyrian graveyards
- Jagodin-Mala, 4th century Christian necropolis
- Cezava, medieval
- Mokrin, Copper Age
- Pesaca, medieval
- Boljetin, medieval
- Ravna[disambiguation needed], medieval
- Ribnica[disambiguation needed], medieval
- Porecka Reka, medieval
- Hajducka Vodenica, prehistoric and medieval necropolis
- Pirivoj, Roman necropolis
Slovenia [edit]
- Neviodunum, Roman
- Šempeter v Savinjski dolini, Roman
Somalia [edit]
South Korea [edit]
Spain [edit]
- Son Ferrer, Bronze
- Ibiza, Necropolis Puig des Molins; Phoenicien
Turkey [edit]
United Kingdom [edit]
- Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
- London Necropolis railway station
- London Necropolis Company
- Highgate Cemetery
- Glasgow Necropolis
- Greek necropolis at West Norwood Cemetery, London
- Southern Necropolis, Glasgow
United States [edit]
- Colma, California
- Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC.
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
Uzbekistan [edit]
Vatican City [edit]
See also [edit]
References and notes [edit]
- ^ http://www.romansociety.org/fileadmin/documents/doc/Hadrianopolis.doc
- ^ http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varret_e_Selc%C3%ABs
- ^ "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Rough Stone Monuments and their Builders, by T. Eric Peet". Gutenberg.org. 2005-04-08. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ Ivanov, Ivan, M. Avramova. Varna Necropolis (Sofia, 2000)
- ^ Saqqara: City of the Dead
- ^ Hala Mundhir Fattah; Frank Caso (2009). A brief history of Iraq. Infobase Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-8160-5767-2. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, Chellah, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, 2007
- ^ slobodan mitrovic (2007-08-26). "Paralaža in situ: Central tumulus excavated at the Bronze Age necropolis Bukovac-Ilirsko Groblje". Paralaza.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "The Vatican Necropolis - Scavi". Retrieved 2007-10-02.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
