Amay

Amay Ama (Walloon)
Municipality
Place Sainte-Ode
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Amay
Amay Location in Belgium Location of Amay in the province of Liège
Coordinates: 50°33′N 05°19′E / 50.550°N 5.317°E / 50.550; 5.317
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)
Population  (2018-01-01)[1]
• Total	14,305
• Density	520/km2 (1,300/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

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

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

• Media related to Amay at Wikimedia Commons