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#* {{quote-book|en|author=C[onstantin] F[rançois] Volney|authorlink=w:Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney|C[onstantin] F[rançois] Volney]]|chapter=Government of the Mamlouks|translator=[anonymous]|title=Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785. {{...|Containing the Present Natural and Political State of Those Countries, Their Productions, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners, Customs, and Government of the Turks and Arabs. [...] Translated from the French.}} In Two Volumes|location=Dublin|publisher={{...|Printed for}} Messrs. White, Byrne, W. Porter, Moore, Dornin, and W[illia]m Jones|year=1793|volume=I|section=section II (The Misery and Famine of Later Years), footnote|page=120|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4KLwxujU18C&pg=PA120|oclc=219961034|passage=In Turkey, the tombs, according to the custom of the ancients, are always without the towns; and as each tomb has uſually a large ſtone, and ſome maſonry, they conſtitute what may almoſt be called a ſecond town, which may be named, as formerly at Alexandria, '''''Necropolis''''', or the city of the dead.}}

#* {{quote-book|en|author=[Martin[w:Nathaniel FarquharParker Tupper]Willis|authorlink=Martin[Nathaniel FarquharParker TupperWillis]]]|titlechapter=Paterfamilias’sThe DiaryGipsy of Everybody’sSardis. Tour:Part BelgiumIII.|title=Inklings andof theAdventure Rhine,[...] Munich,In Switzerland, Milan, Geneva andTwo ParisVolumes|location=New York, N.Y.; London|publisher=ThomasSaunders Hatchardand Otley,{{nb...|187Ann Street, Piccadillyand Conduit Street, London.}}|year=18561836|volume=II|page=28861|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JeELAAAAYAAJ3OgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA288PA61|oclc=4584158511154887351|passage=[I]tIt [{{w|Pèrewas Lachaisea Cemetery}}lovely morning, Paris]as is anI overcrowdedsaid, shabbyand the Turks, dustywho are early risers, andwere ill-keptsitting cemetery:on Kensallthe Green,graves thoughof incipient,their iskindred farwith moretheir picturesque;veiled wives and severalchildren, Americanthe marble turbans in that thickly-sown '''necropoleis''nekropolis''''' less numerous than those of the living, who had come, not to mourn the dead who lay beneath, but to pass a day of idleness and pleasure on the spot endeared beatby ittheir hollowmemories.}}

#* {{quote-book|en|author=AnneA[dolphus] CL[harlotteouis] Lynch Botta|authorlink=Anne Lynch BottaKœppen|chapter=EgyptianThe Literature|title=Hand-bookHarbors ofand UniversalNaval Literature,Establishments fromof the BestAncient andAthenians—The LatestModern Authorities:{{nb...Peiræus|Designedtitle=Sketches forof Populara ReadingTraveller andfrom asGreece, aConstantinople, Text-bookAsia forMinor, SchoolsSyria and Colleges.}}Palestine|location=New YorkChambersburg, N.YPa.|publisher=Derby & Jackson,{{nb...|498,Printed Broadway.by}} M. Kieffer & Co.|year=18601854|page=6019|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OrMLAQAAIAAJ1E0OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60RA3-PA19|oclc=905976978077742|passage=The monumentsancient ofGreeks Egyptgenerally areburied religious,their asdead thein temples; sepulchral, as thetheir '''necropolesnekropoleis'''; or triumphal,their gardens; often ason the obelisks.road [...]leading Theto mosttheir splendidtowns, '''necropoles'''or ofbefore the gates. EgyptThis arepious thosefeeling of Memphisaffection and Thebes,reverence and tofor the '''necropolis'''dead, ofis thea formertouching feature in the pyramidscharacter of El-Geezeh, near Cairo, arethe especiallymodern relatedGreeks.}}

#* {{quote-book|en|author=Barbara Hambly|authorlink=w:Barbara Hambly|chapter=3|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=38bc4zvDvqoC&pg=PT46|title={{w|:Those Who Hunt the Night}}|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=[[w:Open Road Integrated Media|Open Road Media]]|month=November|year=1988|year_published=2011|isbn=978-1-4532-1644-6|passage="How did you happen to discover it?" he inquired as they emerged from the end of the avenue under a massive gateway carved by the cemetery's developers to resemble some regal '''necropolis''' of the Pharaohs.}}

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* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|некрополгробище|n}}

* Galician: {{t+|gl|necrópole|f}}

* JapaneseIrish: {{t|jaga|古墳reilig|tr=こふん, kofunf}}, {{t|jaga|ネクロポリスúirleachas|tr=nekuroporisum}}

* Swedish: {{t+|sv|nekropol}}

* Dutch: {{t+|nl|necropolis|f}}, {{t+|nl|dodenstad|f}}

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