List of necropoleis

For other meanings, see Necropolis (disambiguation).

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.

Part interior of the Chellah necropolis in Rabat, Morocco.

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.

List of examples

Algeria

• Nepasa
• Roknia
• Senâm^[1]

Austria

• Imperial Crypt (Vienna)
• Sulm valley necropolis

Australia

• Rookwood Necropolis (Sydney)
• The Necropolis, Springvale (Melbourne)
• Melbourne General Cemetery

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Radimlja
• Mramorje (Perućac)

Bulgaria

• Varna Necropolis^[2]
• Tuhovishta's Village Necropolis (Satovcha)
  

  Tuhovishta's village necropolis.

Canada

• Necropolis Cemetery - one of Toronto's oldest cemeteries

China

• Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
• Ming Dynasty Tombs
• Fengdu Ghost City
• Western Xia tombs
• Eastern Qing Tombs
• Western Qing Tombs

Colombia

• Parque Arqueológico de San Agustin

Croatia

• Stara Novalja

Cuba

• Colón Necrópolis (Havana)
• Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo (Matanzas)

Cyprus

• Amathus
• Tamassos
• Tombs of the Kings (Paphos)

Denmark

• Assistens Cemetery

Egypt

• Cairo
• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Memphis
• Saqqara^[3]
• Siwa Oasis
• Theban Necropolis

France

• Alyscamps (Arles)
• The Panthéon (Paris)
• Père Lachaise Cemetery (Paris)
• Saint Denis Basilica (Saint-Denis)

Germany

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

Indonesia

• Imogiri

Iran

Naqsh-e Rustam Tombs Achaemenid Kings circa 500 BC

Israel

• Beit She'arim

Italy

• Bologna
• Cerveteri
• Gaudo, Paestum
• Lipari (Aeolian Islands)
• Locri
• Children's Necropolis of Lugnano in Teverina
• Norchia
• Pantalica
• Pezza Petrosa, Grottaglie
• Taranto

Latvia

• Marupes Kapi

Lebanon

• Tyre

Macedonia

• Saint Erasmus (Ohrid)

Malaysia

• Nirvana Memorial Park

Malta

• Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni

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

Morocco

• Chellah^[4]

Pakistan

• Makli Hill (Thatta)
• Chaukundi Near (Karachi)

Another famous archeological site in Pakistan is called Mohenjo-daro, which literally means "Mound of the dead".

Peru

• Paracas

Poland

• Powązki Cemetery
• Central Cemetery in Szczecin

Philippines

• Manila North Cemetery
• Manila Chinese Cemetery
• La Loma Cemetery

Russia

• Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Novodevichy Cemetery
• Glazkovo Necropolis in Irkutsk
• Dargavs, North Ossetia

Serbia

• Karaburma,
• Krajčinovići, Bronze Age
• Bukovac, Illyrian graveyards^[5]
• 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

Slovenia

• Neviodunum, Roman
• Šempeter v Savinjski dolini, Roman

South Korea

• Gyeongju

Spain

• Son Ferrer, Bronze
• Ibiza, Necropolis Puig des Molins; Phoenicien

Turkey

• Antalya
• Alanya
• Side
• Aytap
• Pamukkale

United Kingdom

• Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey
• London Necropolis railway station
• London Necropolis Company
• Glasgow Necropolis
• Greek necropolis at West Norwood Cemetery, London
• Southern Necropolis, Glasgow

United States

• Colma, California
• Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC.
• Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Uzbekistan

• Bahoutdin Architectural Complex

Vatican City

• Vatican Necropolis^[6]

See also

• Cemetery
• Grave field
• Catacombs
• Crypt
• Mausoleum

References and notes

1. ^ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15590/15590-h/15590-h.htm#Pg_094
2. ^ Ivanov, Ivan, M. Avramova. Varna Necropolis (Sofia, 2000)
3. ^ Saqqara: City of the Dead
4. ^ C. Michael Hogan, Chellah, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, 2007
5. ^ http://paralaza.blogspot.com/2007/08/central-tumulus-revealed-on-bronze-age.html
6. ^ "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.