List of necropoleis

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View of the Tyre Necropolis in Lebanon.

View of the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia in Cerveteri, Italy.

Athlete tomb in the necropolis in Taranto, Italy.

Nepasa necropolis in Algeria.

Roknia necropolis in Algeria.

Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo in Cuba, August 2007.

The Battle of Warsaw (1920) section of Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland.

Chaukundi necropolis near Karachi, Pakistan.

A necropolis (plural: necropoleis) is a large cemetery or burial place (from Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, "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, often an abandoned city or town, near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations.

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] Algeria

[edit] Austria

[edit] Australia

[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina

Radimlja

[edit] Bulgaria

Varna Necropolis^[1]
Tuhovishta's Village Necropolis (Satovcha)

Tuhovishta's village necropolis.

[edit] Canada

Necropolis Cemetery - one of Toronto's oldest cemeteries

[edit] People's Republic of China

[edit] Croatia

Stara Novalja

[edit] Cuba

[edit] Cyprus

[edit] Denmark

Assistens Cemetery

[edit] Egypt

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

Oldendorfer Totenstatt - concentration of Neolithic megalith graves
Soderstorf Necropolis - site with above-ground graves from several periods of history