Amay

Amay
Saint George's church
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Amay Location in Belgium
Coordinates: 50°33′N 05°19′E
Country	Belgium
Region	Wallonia
Community	French Community
Province	Liège
Arrondissement	Huy
Government
• Mayor	Jean-Michel Javaux (Ecolo)
• Governing party/ies	Ecolo, MR
Area
• Total	27.61 km2 (10.66 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2010)
• Total	13,557
• Density	490/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Postal codes	4540
Area codes	085
Website	www.amay.be
Map of Amay

Amay, the old romanesque tower (XIIth century).

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).

Famous inhabitants

• François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay
• Zénobe Gramme (1824-1902), inventor of the dynamo
• Armand Rocour (1932-1988), filmmaker

Places of interest

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

References

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