Catacombs

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 * Catacombs, general
 * Catacombs, Rome
 * Catacombs, Paris
 * Catacombs, Netlor
 * Catacombs, Tomb World
 * Catacombs, Karthania

Catacombs, general
Catacombs are human-made [1] subterranean passageways for religious practice. Any chamber used as a burial place is a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman Empire.

The first place to be referred to as catacombs was the system of underground tombs between the 2nd and 3rd milestones of the Appian Way in Rome, where the bodies of the apostles Peter and Paul, among others, were said to have been buried. The name of that place in late Latin was catacombae, a word of obscure origin, possibly deriving from a proper name, or else a corruption of the Latin phrase cata tumbas, "among the tombs". The word referred originally only to the Roman catacombs, but was extended by 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century Paris catacombs. All Roman catacombs were located outside city walls since it was illegal to bury a dead body within the city, providing "a place…where martyrs tombs could be openly marked" and commemorative services and feasts held safely on sacred days.

List of Catacombs (Earth)
Catacombs around the world include: There are also catacomb-like burial chambers in Anatolia, Turkey; in Sousse, North Africa; in Syracuse, Italy; Trier, Germany; Kiev, Ukraine. Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Sicily were used as late as the 1920s. Catacombs were available in some of the grander English cemeteries founded in the 19th Century, such as Sheffield General Cemetery (above ground) and West Norwood Cemetery (below ground). There are catacombs in Bulgaria near Aladzha Monastery[citation needed] and in Romania as medieval underground galleries in Bucharest.[7]  In Ukraine and Russia, catacomb (used in the local languages' plural katakomby) also refers to the network of abandoned caves and tunnels earlier used to mine stone, especially limestone.
 * Australia – Catacombs of Trinity College, Melbourne
 * Austria – Catacombs of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
 * Czech Republic – Catacombs of Znojmo
 * Bosnia and Herzegovina – Catacombs of Jajce
 * Egypt – Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (or Kom al Sukkfa, Shuqafa, etc.) in Alexandria
 * England – Catacombs of London and others
 * Finland – Catacombs of the Helsinki Orthodox cemetery at Hietaniemi cemetery
 * France – Catacombs of Paris. Mine workings were used at end of the 18th century and had no religious purpose other than as an ossuary for storing the bones of cleared graveyards.
 * Greece – Catacombs of Milos
 * Italy – Catacombs of Rome; Catacombs of Naples; Capuchin catacombs of Palermo and others
 * Malta – Rabat Catacombs[5]
 * Peru – Catacombs of the Convento de San Francisco, Lima
 * Philippines - Catacomb of Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery
 * Serbia - Petrovaradin Fortress catacombs
 * Spain – Catacombs of Sacromonte in Granada
 * Ukraine – Odessa Catacombs
 * United States - Old St. Patrick's Cathedral[6]