Arvati

Village in Pelagonia, North Macedonia

Arvati

Арвати
Arvat

Village

Panoramic view of the village Arvati

Arvati

Location within North Macedonia

Coordinates: 40°56′37″N 21°06′47″E﻿ / ﻿40.94361°N 21.11306°E﻿ / 40.94361; 21.11306
Country|  North Macedonia
Region|  Pelagonia
Municipality|  Resen
Population

(2021)

• Total| 119
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code| +389
Car plates| RE

Arvati (Macedonian: Арвати; Albanian: Arvat) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. Located 18.5 kilometres (11.5 mi) from the municipal centre of Resen,[1] the village has 137 residents.[2] It is situated east of Lake Prespa, at the foot of Baba Mountain.

## History

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In the 19th century, Arvati was part of the Manastir Sanjak, a subdivision of the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.

## Demographics

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The demographics of Arvati are written in several Bulgarian sources. According to Yordan Iliev Yordanov, Arvati in 1873 had 45 households and 136 male inhabitants (80 Bulgarians and 56 Muslims).[3] In 1905, D.M.Brancoff wrote Arvati's population consisted of Bulgarians Exarchists and 186 Albanians.[4] In the early twentieth century, Vasil Kanchov wrote Arvati had 325 people composed of 160 Orthodox Bulgarians, 100 Muslim Albanians and 65 Romani.[5]

From the mid twentieth century onward, Arvati's population has consisted of Orthodox Macedonians and Sunni Muslim Albanians, with the latter forming a majority.[6][7]

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group  | census 1961  | census 1971  | census 1981  | census 1991  | census 1994  | census 2002  | census 2021

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Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %
Macedonians | 179  | 36.5  | 150  | 28.0  | 160  | 31.6  | 149  | 28.9  | 54  | 29.5  | 51  | 37.2  | 37  | 31.1
Albanians | 310  | 63.3  | 383  | 71.5  | 344  | 67.9  | 366  | 71.1  | 129  | 70.5  | 85  | 62.0  | 82  | 68.9
others  | 1  | 0.2  | 3  | 0.6  | 3  | 0.6  | 0  | 0.0  | 0  | 0.0  | 1  | 0.5  | 0  | 0.0
Total  | 490  | 536  | 507  | 515  | 183  | 137  | 119

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.[8]

Panorama of Arvati showing extensions of the Baba mountains and Lake Prespa to far east

### Religion

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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.[8]

Arvati is home to four churches dedicated to St Nicholas, Sts Constantine and Elena, St Archangel Michael, and the Ascension of the Virgin Mary.[9]

## Gallery

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* Centre of Arvati with a welcome greeting written on a big stone

* Village water fountain, Arvati centre

* Krani river and traditional architecture of Arvati

* Traditional architecture of Arvati

* Krani river in Arvati

* Krani river in Arvati

* Traditional architecture of Arvati

* In the fields of Arvati looking out toward Mt Pelister

* Traditional architecture of Arvati

* In the fields of Arvati looking out toward Mt Pelister

* Architecture of Arvati and Krani river

* Krani river in Arvati

* Bilingual Yugoslav era monument to fallen partisan

* Main Orthodox church of Arvati

* Small Orthodox church in Arvati

* Stony path heading toward fields of Arvati

* Sheep in Arvati

## References

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1. ^ "Arvati". Retrieved 31 July 2013.
2. ^ "Municipality of Resen". Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2013-08-24.
3. ^ Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, Sofia, 1995, стр. 88-89.
4. ^ D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, рр. 170-171.
5. ^ "Васил Кънчов. "Македония. Етнография и статистика". София, 1900, стр. 241". Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
6. ^ Sugarman, Jane (1997). Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings. University of Chicago Press. pp. 9–11. ISBN 9780226779720.
7. ^ Censuses of population 1948 - 2002 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
8. ^ a b "Macedonian census, language and religion" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-03.
9. ^ "Karta na Verski Objekti vo Republika Makedonija" (PDF) (in Macedonian). Skopje: Komisija za odnosi so verskite zaednici i religiozni grupi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014.

## External links

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* Local Arvati tourist site

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