The preliminary outcomes of the 2011 census appeared to provide extensively completely different outcomes, with 70% of respondents refusing to declare perception in any of the listed faiths. Islam arrived for the first time in the late ninth century to the area, when Arabs raided parts of the eastern banks of the Adriatic Sea. It later emerged as the majority faith, throughout centuries of Ottoman rule, although a significant Christian minority remained. Meanwhile, in medieval instances, the Albanian folks first appeared inside historic data from the Byzantines.