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NECROPOLIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 338 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NECROPOLIS  , a

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cemetery (q.v.) or burying-
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place, literally a "
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city of the dead " (Gr. vEKpos,
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corpse, and coats, city) . Apart from the occasional application of the word to
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modern cemeteries outside large towns, the
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term is chiefly used of
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burial-grounds near. the sites of the centres of
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ancient civilizations .

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