Amay
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Amay
Ama (Walloon) | |
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Coordinates: 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 | 27.66 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
[edit]- Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée, a 16th-century castle
Famous inhabitants
[edit]- François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay
- Zénobe Gramme (1824-1902), inventor of the dynamo
References
[edit]- ^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Amay at Wikimedia Commons