Amay
Municipality in Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium
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Amay (French pronunciation: [amɛ]; Walloon: Ama) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
Amay
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 Place Sainte-Ode | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
 Location of Amay in the province of Liège | |
 Interactive map of Amay | |
  Amay Location in Belgium | |
| 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 parties | Ecolo, MR |
| Area | |
• Total | 27.66 km2 (10.68 sq mi) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 14,305 |
| • Density | 517.2/km2 (1,339/sq mi) |
| Postal codes | 4540 |
| NIS code | 61003 |
| Area codes | 085 |
| Website | www.amay.be |
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
