Between 1783 and 1913, approximately 5-7 million refugees flooded into the Ottoman Empire, at least 3.8 million of whom were Russians.

About 500, 000 Karelian refugees flooded across the new border.

Last summer more than 70,000 refugees flooded back to this region after a Tutsi-led coup took over the Government in Burundi.

More than 125,000 Cuban refugees flooded into South Beach escaping the oppression of their native island country just 90 miles away.

Loyalist refugees flooded into the city raising its population to 33,000.

With fresh attacks reported this week, refugees are not flooding back home.

Other refugees flooded the Great Lakes area, resulting in a conflict with existing nations in the region.

No one claimed to know exactly how many refugees have flooded into the Tuzla area since Wednesday, but most estimates are in the range of 20,000.

At least 1.5 million mostly poor, unskilled, unemployed Russian refugees have flooded the country in the last year from other parts of the former Soviet Union.

That Colombian refugees, displaced by an offensive against the drug barons, are flooding into Ecuador.