Arvati (; ) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. Located from the municipal centre of Resen, the village has 137 residents. It is situated east of Lake Prespa, at the foot of Baba Mountain.
History In the 19th century, Arvati was part of the Manastir Sanjak, a subdivision of the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
Demographics
The demographics of Arvati are written in several Macedonian sources. According to Yordan Iliev Yordanov, Arvati in 1873 had 45 households and 136 male inhabitants (80 Macedonian and 56 Muslims).Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, Sofia, 1995, стр. 88-89. In 1905, Dimitar Mishev (D.M Brancoff) wrote Arvati's population consisted of Macedonians and 186 Albanians.D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, рр. 170-171. In the early twentieth century, Vasil Kanchov wrote Arvati had 325 people composed of 160 Christian Macedonians, 100 Muslim Albanians and 65 Romani.
From the mid twentieth century onward, Arvati's population has consisted of Orthodox Macedonians and Sunni Muslim Albanians, with the latter forming a majority.Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Ethnicgroup census 1961 census 1971 census 1981 census 1991 census 1994 census 2002 census 2021 Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %Number % Macedonians 179 36.5 150 28.0 160 31.6 149 28.9 54 29.5 51 37.23731.1 Albanians 310 63.3 383 71.5 344 67.9 366 71.1 129 70.5 85 62.08268.9 others 1 0.2 3 0.6 3 0.6 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 0.500.0 Total 490 536 507 515 183 137119
The mothers tongues of the residents, much like the ethnic affiliations, include 51 native Macedonian speakers, 84 Albanian speakers, and two with a different mother tongue.
Religion The religious affiliations of the village's residents also followed ethnic lines, with 51 identifying as Orthodox Christians, 85 as Muslims, and one as something else, as of the 2002 census.
Arvati is home to four churches dedicated to St Nicholas, Sts Constantine and Elena, St Archangel Michael, and the Ascension of the Virgin Mary.
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References
External links Local Arvati tourist site