Necropolis
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A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to theircemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; agraveyard.
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From Greek, denoting The City of the Dead, nowadays a churchyard, a graveyard. Also necropola. Underground necropolis is called catacombs.
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Morbid, gothic, chilly tourist attraction.
Hill on outskirts of Glasgow city, covered in with hundreds of graves - from small unmarked stones to massive mausoleums. A solitary footpath winds round the Necropolis, spiralling round the crest of the hill to the top. Found next to Glasgow Cathedral.
Creepy as shit at night. Not much better in the day but at least you can see where you're going.
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One of the stages of the main building of the Undead race in [Warcraft].
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