The Corinthians invited Corcyraean and Akarnanian settlers to join them in Anactorium, but their relationships were fraught with tension, for their mother cities often found themselves at war with each other. Corinth and Corcyra fought a naval battle near Anactorium and the latter won, but the Corinthians used a ruse to expel all Corcyraeans from the city. Less than eight years later, in 425 BCE, the Akarnanians permanently banished the Corinthians from their colony, with the help of the Athenians. Anactorium played a minor role in regional events for the next 400 years, but when the Roman emperor Augustus founded Nikopolis (31 CE), he forcibly relocated the population to the new city.