Amay

Amay
Municipality
Place Sainte-Ode
Flag Coat of arms
Amay Location in Belgium
Location of Amay in the province of Liège
Coordinates: 50°33′N 05°19′E / 50.550°N 5.317°ECoordinates: 50°33′N 05°19′E / 50.550°N 5.317°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	27.61 km^2 (10.66 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2013)[1]
• Total	13,863
• Density	500/km^2 (1,300/sq mi)
Postal codes	4540
Area codes	085
Website	www.amay.be

Amay is a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province of Liège. On January 1, 2006, Amay had a total population of 13,144. 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 sub-municipalities: Amay proper, Ampsin, Flône, Jehay, and Ombret.

Places of interest

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

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

1. Population per municipality on 1 January 2013 (XLS; 607.5 KB)

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

External links

• Media related to Amay at Wikimedia Commons