| Asamati | |
| Native Name: | Асамати Asamat |
| 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: | 168 |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Coordinates: | 40.9864°N 21.0508°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Area Code: | +389 |
| Blank Name: | Car plates |
| Blank Info: | RE |
Asamati (Macedonian: Асамати; Albanian: Asamat, Osomat) is a village in the Resen Municipality of North Macedonia, on the northeastern shore of Lake Prespa. Asamati is located just over 12km (07miles) from the municipal centre of Resen[1] and has 175 residents.[2]
Asamati is home to several archaeological sites, dating from various historical eras, most of which were discovered by accident. Many of the findings from the sites, such as pithos and roof tiles, are housed at the Saraj in Resen.[3]
The demographics of Asamati are written in several Bulgarian sources. According to Yordan Iliev Yordanov, Asamati in 1873 is listed as "Adamite", consisted of 16 households with 30 Muslim inhabitants and 16 Bulgarians.[4] In 1905, D.M.Brancoff wrote Asamati had 150 inhabitants, of which 102 were Muslim Albanians and the remainder were Bulgarian Exarchists.[5]
During World War I, the village had 115 residents.[6]
The population of Asamati is ethnically mixed, consisting of Orthodox Macedonians living alongside Muslim Sunni and Bektashi Albanians, of whom the latter are known locally as Kolonjarë.[7] It is the only village in the municipality with no majority ethnic group.[8]
| Ethnic group | census 1961 | census 1971 | census 1981 | census 1991 | census 1994 | census 2002 | census 2021 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
| Macedonians | 106 | 48.0 | 83 | 41.1 | 87 | 40.0 | 88 | 37.9 | 77 | 39.5 | 68 | 38.9 | 55 | 32.7 |
| Albanians | 65 | 29.4 | 102 | 50.5 | 106 | 48.6 | 94 | 40.5 | 97 | 49.7 | 81 | 46.3 | 91 | 54.2 |
| Turks | 49 | 22.2 | 17 | 8.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 22 | 9.5 | 21 | 10.8 | 26 | 14.9 | 16 | 9.5 |
| others | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 25 | 11.5 | 28 | 12.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 3.6 |
| Total | 221 | 202 | 218 | 232 | 195 | 175 | 168 | |||||||