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Amay
Ama (Walloon)
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 Amay
Location in Belgium
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| Country | Belgium | ||
| Community | French Community | ||
| Region | Wallonia | ||
| Province | Liège | ||
| Arrondissement | Huy | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 27.61 km2 (10.66 sq mi) | ||
| Population
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| Postal codes |
4540
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| 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
- 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
See also
In Spanish: Amay para niños
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