In the 1920s, the area saw refugees arrived from Constantinople, the modern Istanbul.

It was due to the mass migration of Chinese refugees arrived in Hong Kong after the civil war.

The Cathedral also supports a ministry that provides a home for refugees newly arrived in Manitoba.

Daegu and all of North Gyeongsang saw heavy guerrilla activity in the late 1940s, as thousands of refugees arrived from the fighting in Jeolla.

Post-war many Polish servicemen remained in Britain and further numbers of refugees arrived in the country.

Last year, 92 percent of the 22,000 Vietnamese refugees arrived in Hong Kong.

Around 200,000 refugees arrived in Tripura in March, 1950.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War an exodus of Palestinian refugees arrived in Lebanon.

Lebanon - Following the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, more than 20,000 refugees arrived in Australia.

As refugees arrived in their villages today, there were scenes of relatives hugging and crying, of old friends reunited, of husbands rejoining wives and parents finding children.