Amay

Amay Ama (Walloon)
Municipality
Place Sainte-Ode Place Sainte-Ode
Flag of Amay Flag Coat of arms of Amay Coat of arms
Amay is located in Belgium Amay Amay Location in Belgium Location of Amay in the province of Liège File:Amay Liège Belgium Map.svg
Coordinates: 50°33′N 05°19′E
Country	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonia
Province	Liège
Arrondissement	Huy
Government
• Mayor	Jean-Michel Javaux (Ecolo)
• Governing party/ies	Ecolo, MR
Area
• Total	27.66 km2 (10.68 sq mi)
Postal codes	4540
NIS code	61003
Area codes	085
Website	www.amay.be

Amay (French pronunciation: [amɛ]; Walloon: Ama) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Amay had a total population of approximately 14,231. The total area is 27.61 km² which gives a population density of approximately 476 inhabitants per km². It owes its site to a ford of the Meuse that was still in use in the Middle Ages but had begun as a Gallo-Roman vicus of the civitas Tungrorum (Tongeren). The municipality consists of the following districts: Amay, Ampsin, Flône, Jehay, and Ombret-Rawsa.

Places of interest

See also: List of protected heritage sites in Amay

• Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée, a 16th-century castle

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Old Romanesque tower (12th century)

Famous inhabitants

• François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay
• Zénobe Gramme (1824-1902), inventor of the dynamo

References

• Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Amay, Belgium"

External links

• File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Amay at Wikimedia Commons