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 word 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, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds, near the centers of ancient civilizations, such as an abandoned city or town.
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.
[edit] List of examples
[edit] Albania
[edit] Algeria
[edit] Austria
[edit] Australia
- Rookwood Necropolis (Sydney)
- The Necropolis, Springvale (Melbourne)
- Melbourne General Cemetery
[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina
[edit] Bulgaria
- Varna Necropolis[3]
- Tuhovishta's Village Necropolis (Satovcha)
Tuhovishta's village necropolis.
[edit] Canada
- Necropolis Cemetery - one of Toronto's oldest cemeteries
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (Montreal)
[edit] China
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Ming Dynasty Tombs
- Fengdu Ghost City
- Western Xia tombs
- Eastern Qing Tombs
- Western Qing Tombs
[edit] Colombia
[edit] Croatia
[edit] Cuba
[edit] Cyprus
[edit] Denmark
[edit] Egypt
[edit] France
- Alyscamps (Arles)
- The Panthéon (Paris)
- Père Lachaise Cemetery (Paris)
- Saint Denis Basilica (Saint-Denis)
[edit] Germany
- Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Hamburg)
- Oldendorfer Totenstatt - concentration of Neolithic megalith graves
- Soderstorf Necropolis - site with above-ground graves from several periods of history
[edit] Indonesia
[edit] Iran
- Naqsh-e Rustam Tombs Achaemenid Kings circa 500 BC
[edit] Ireland
[edit] Israel
[edit] Italy
- Bologna
- Cerveteri
- Gaudo, Paestum
- Lipari (Aeolian Islands)
- Locri
- Children's Necropolis of Lugnano in Teverina
- Norchia
- Pantalica
- Pezza Petrosa, Grottaglie
- Taranto
[edit] Latvia
[edit] Lebanon
[edit] Macedonia
[edit] Malaysia
[edit] Malta
[edit] Mexico
- 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
[edit] Morocco
[edit] Pakistan
- Makli Hill (Thatta)
- Chaukundi Near (Karachi)
Another famous archeological site in Pakistan is called Mohenjo-daro, which literally means "Mound of the dead".
[edit] Peru
[edit] Poland
[edit] Philippines
[edit] Russia
[edit] Serbia
- Karaburma,
- Krajčinovići, Bronze Age
- Bukovac, Illyrian graveyards[6]
- Golubac, Illyrian graveyards
- Jagodin-Mala, 4th century Christian necropolis
- Cezava, medieval
- Mokrin, Copper Age
- Pesaca, medieval
- Boljetin, medieval
- Ravna, medieval
- Ribnica, medieval
- Porecka Reka, medieval
- Hajducka Vodenica, prehistoric and medieval necropolis
- Pirivoj, Roman necropolis
[edit] Slovenia
- Neviodunum, Roman
- Šempeter v Savinjski dolini, Roman
[edit] South Korea
[edit] Spain
- Son Ferrer, Bronze
- Ibiza, Necropolis Puig des Molins; Phoenicien
[edit] Turkey
[edit] United Kingdom
- Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
- London Necropolis railway station
- London Necropolis Company
- Highgate Cemetery
- Glasgow Necropolis
- Greek necropolis at West Norwood Cemetery, London
- Southern Necropolis, Glasgow
[edit] United States
[edit] Uzbekistan
[edit] Vatican City
[edit] See also
[edit] References and notes
- ^ http://www.romansociety.org/fileadmin/documents/doc/Hadrianopolis.doc
- ^ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15590/15590-h/15590-h.htm#Pg_094
- ^ Ivanov, Ivan, M. Avramova. Varna Necropolis (Sofia, 2000)
- ^ Saqqara: City of the Dead
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, Chellah, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, 2007
- ^ http://paralaza.blogspot.com/2007/08/central-tumulus-revealed-on-bronze-age.html
- ^ "The Vatican Necropolis - Scavi". http://saintpetersbasilica.org/Necropolis/Scavi-map.htm. 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.
