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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 km which gives a population density of approximately 476 inhabitants per km. 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
- ^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
External links
- Media related to Amay at Wikimedia Commons