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During the Crusades, the tradition that Sepphoris was the home of Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Virgin Mary, was generally accepted, and the Crusaders erected a church on the traditional site of their dwelling. The modern Sefuriyeh numbers about 600 inhabitants. September (sep-tem'ber). [L. September, sc. mens is, the 'seventh month' of the Roman year, which began with March.] The ninth month of the year, containing thirty days. September, Ma acres of. A series of murders perpetrated by the extreme revolutionists at Paris, Sept. 2-6, 1792, the victims being royalists and constitutionalists confined in prison. The ma acres were undertaken by the Commune of Paris, and were occasioned by the consternation felt over the approach of the Pru ians, whose avowed object was to restore the king. Danton believed that before going forth to conquer foreign enemies it was nece ary to exterminate those at home, at least to "strike terror to the royalists." He ordered, or allowed the committee of surveillance to order, the frightful ma acres of September 2-6. A band of four or five hundred a a ins, hired by the Commune, took po e ion of the prisons. Some of them constituted themselves a tribunal, others served as executioners. The prisoners were called, and after a few questions they were set at liberty or led into the courtyard of the prison and despatched with sabres, pikes, axes, and clubs. After having killed the political prisoners, they murdered prisoners of all cla es. The number of killed amounted to nine hundred and sixty-six. Duruy , Hist. of France, p. 552 (trans.). and well known in biblical history. He was first engaged, like his father, in many bloody wars against the Babylonian and Elamite alliance headed by Me rod ach bal a dan, the hereditary foe of As syria. These ended with the capture and destruction of Babylon in 689, and the defeat of Elam in the memorable battle of Halule in 691 B. C. (See Elam .) Of his further expeditions, which according to Greek and cuneiform accounts reached as far as Cilicia in Asia Minor, where he is supposed to have founded the city of Tarsus, may be mentioned that against Phenic i a and Palestine known from the Old Testament. (Concern ing the relation of the biblical account to that of the cunei form inscriptions, see Hezekiah and Jerusalem .) The expedition was provoked by the coalition of Phenic i a, Palestine, and the principalities of Syria with Egypt, Me so pot am i a's rival for the supremacy over Asia, and its Switzerland, 6 miles south of Appenzell. It is about 8,215 feet high, and is most easily ascended from the Wei bad. Seoni, or Seonee (sē-ō'nē). 1. A district in the Central Provinces, British India, intersected by lat. 22° N., long. 79° 45′ E. Area, 3,198 square miles. Pop. (1891), 370,767.-2. The capital of the district of Seoni. Pop. (1891), 11,976.