| Arvati | |
| Native Name: | Арвати Arvat |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | North Macedonia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within North Macedonia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pelagonia |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 119 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 40.9436°N 21.1131°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | +389 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | RE |
Arvati (Macedonian: Арвати; Albanian: Arvat) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia. Located 18.5km (11.5miles) 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.
In the 19th century, Arvati was part of the Manastir Sanjak, a subdivision of the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire.
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]
From the mid twentieth century onward, Arvati's population has consisted of Orthodox Macedonians and Sunni Muslim Albanians, with the latter forming a majority.[5] [6]
| Ethnic group | 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 | 37.2 | 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.[7]
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.[8]