Some traces of Islam in the Balkans before the Ottomans📖
"In the late 1930s, an Arabic silver coin dating from the time of the Umayyad ruler Marwān II (r. 744-50) was found in the village of Potoci in Herzegovina."
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"The fırst contacts between Albanians and Islam happened in the middle of the 9th century. After having conquered a great part of Southern Italy, the Muslim Arabs launched raids on the eastern shores of the Adriatic." (Egro 2003)
"Port-cities along the Adriatic Sea like Dubrovnik, Tivari, Ulqini, Durazzo, Valona, Himara, etc., and other Greek and Southern Italian cities were centers of trade.
During the 12th century, the well known Muslim historians and travelers, Al-Idris and Ibn Hawkali, tell in fine details the social and political situation of those places." (N. Ibrahimi)
The Al–Aga Mosque is the oldest Mosque in Kosovo and in the entire Balkan region. It is located near Dragash and was built in 1289.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aga_Mo…
"Remnants of Muslim Arabs were present in the second half of the 13th century as mercenary forces in the military service of the Angevine army in the Albanian city of Durres (1272)" (Egro 2003)
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