When Alexander died in 323 the resettlement of the empire at Babylon is said to have been made at Ptolemy's instigation.
It was government's proposal to introduce a formalized resettlement program.
In historical times it belonged to the Ozolian Locrians; but about 455 B.C., in spite of a partial resettlement with Locrians of Opus, it fell to the Athenians, who peopled it with Messenian refugees and made it their chief naval station in western Greece during the Peloponnesian war.
The custom of the country gradually took the shape of a simultaneous resettlement of all conditions of rural occupation about St George's day (November 24), that is after the gathering of the harvest and the practical winding up of rural work.
This includes helping refugees with resettlement once the Home Office has granted asylum.