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'''Arvati''' ({{langx|mk|Арвати}}; {{langx|sq|Arvat}}) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. Located {{convert|18.5|km|mi}} from the municipal centre of Resen,<ref name="makedonija.name">{{cite web|url=http://makedonija.name/municipalities/resen/arvati|title=Arvati|access-date=31 July 2013}}</ref> the village has 137 residents.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.resen.gov.mk/Default.aspx?LCID=242 |title=Municipality of Resen |access-date=2013-08-24 |archive-date=2018-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831080002/http://resen.gov.mk/Default.aspx?LCID=242 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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).<ref name="Statistics,1873">Македония и Одринско. Статистика на населението от 1873 г. Македонски научен институт, Sofia, 1995, стр. 88-89.</ref> In 1905, Dimitar Mishev (D.M Brancoff) wrote Arvati's population consisted of Macedonians and 186 Albanians.<ref name="Brankoff">[http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/php/pdf_pager.php?filename=%2Fvar%2Fwww%2Fanemi-portal%2Fmetadata%2F6%2F9%2F5%2Fattached-metadata-5d3c137498cf87397083652dec9dfdac_1242889374%2F154547_w.pdf&rec=&do=&width=1031&height=728&pagestart=1&maxpage=141&lang=en&pageno=89&pagenotop=89&pagenobottom=90 D.M.Brancoff. "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne". Paris, 1905, рр. 170-171.]</ref > In the early twentieth century, Vasil Kanchov wrote Arvati had 325 people composed of 160 Christian Macedonians, 100 Muslim Albanians and 65 Romani.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_36.htm |title=Васил Кънчов. "Македония. Етнография и статистика". София, 1900, стр. 241. |access-date=2018-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107150128/http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_36.htm |archive-date=2017-11-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
From the mid twentieth century onward, Arvati's population has consisted of Orthodox Macedonians and Sunni Muslim Albanians, with the latter forming a majority.<ref name="Sugarman911">{{cite book|last=Sugarman|first=Jane|title=Engendering song: Singing and subjectivity at Prespa Albanian weddings|year=1997|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226779720|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x41vWj_ESu8C&q=Roma&pg=PR9|pages=9–11}}</ref><ref name="Censuses of population 1948 - 2002">[http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp Censuses of population 1948 - 2002] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014071758/http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/pxweb2007bazi/Database/Censuses/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002/Censuses%20of%20population%201948-2002.asp |date=2013-10-14 }}</ref> {| class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group ! colspan="2" | census 1961 ! colspan="2" | census 1971 ! colspan="2" | census 1981 ! colspan="2" | census 1991 ! colspan="2" | census 1994 ! colspan="2" | census 2002 ! colspan="2" | census 2021 |-bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % !Number ! % |- | Macedonians | align="right" | 179 | align="right" | 36.5 | align="right" | 150 | align="right" | 28.0 | align="right" | 160 | align="right" | 31.6 | align="right" | 149 | align="right" | 28.9 | align="right" | 54 | align="right" | 29.5 | align="right" | 51 | align="right" | 37.2 | align="right" |37 | align="right" |31.1 |- | Albanians | align="right" | 310 | align="right" | 63.3 | align="right" | 383 | align="right" | 71.5 | align="right" | 344 | align="right" | 67.9 | align="right" | 366 | align="right" | 71.1 | align="right" | 129 | align="right" | 70.5 | align="right" | 85 | align="right" | 62.0 | align="right" |82 | align="right" |68.9 |- | others | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 0.2 | align="right" | 3 | align="right" | 0.6 | align="right" | 3 | align="right" | 0.6 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 0 | align="right" | 0.0 | align="right" | 1 | align="right" | 0.5 | align="right" |0 | align="right" |0.0 |-bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! align="left" | Total ! colspan="2" | 490 ! colspan="2" | 536 ! colspan="2" | 507 ! colspan="2" | 515 ! colspan="2" | 183 ! colspan="2" | 137 ! colspan="2" |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.<ref name="Statistical Office">{{cite web|url=http://www.stat.gov.mk/Publikacii/knigaX.pdf |title=Macedonian census, language and religion |date= |access-date=2013-09-03}}</ref>
{{wide image|Arvati village 1.jpg|1000px|Panorama of Arvati showing extensions of the Baba mountains and Lake Prespa to far east}}
===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.<ref name="Statistical Office" />
Arvati is home to four churches dedicated to St Nicholas, Sts Constantine and Elena, St Archangel Michael, and the Ascension of the Virgin Mary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kovz.gov.mk/WBStorage/Files/karta%20i%20tekst%20spoeno.pdf|title=Karta na Verski Objekti vo Republika Makedonija|publisher=Komisija za odnosi so verskite zaednici i religiozni grupi|language=Macedonian|access-date=27 April 2014|location=Skopje|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124073111/http://www.kovz.gov.mk/WBStorage/Files/karta%20i%20tekst%20spoeno.pdf|archive-date=24 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="packed"> File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 222.jpg|Centre of Arvati with a welcome greeting written on a big stone File:Arvati village 19.jpg|Village water fountain, Arvati centre File:Arvati village 4.jpg|Krani river and traditional architecture of Arvati File:Arvati village 13.jpg|Traditional architecture of Arvati File:Arvati village 3.jpg|Krani river in Arvati File:Arvati village 2.jpg|Krani river in Arvati File:Arvati village 59.jpg|Traditional architecture of Arvati File:Arvati village 34.jpg|In the fields of Arvati looking out toward Mt Pelister File:Arvati village 26.jpg|Traditional architecture of Arvati File:Arvati village 32.jpg|In the fields of Arvati looking out toward Mt Pelister File:Викиекспедиција Преспа 219.jpg|Architecture of Arvati and Krani river File:Arvati village 5.jpg|Krani river in Arvati File:Arvati village 71.jpg|Bilingual Yugoslav era monument to fallen partisan File:Arvati Archangel Church 3.jpg|Main Orthodox church of Arvati File:Arvati church.jpg|Small Orthodox church in Arvati File:Arvati village 44.jpg|Stony path heading toward fields of Arvati File:Arvati village 41.jpg|Sheep in Arvati </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205920/http://www.arvati-etnoselo.com/eng/ Local Arvati tourist site]
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Category:Villages in Resen Municipality Category:Albanian communities in North Macedonia