| Arms | Blason Amay.svg |
|---|---|
| Province | Liège |
| Arrondissement | Huy |
| Nis | 61003 |
| Mayor | Jean-Michel Javaux (Ecolo) |
| Majority | Ecolo, MR |
| Postal-codes | 4540 |
| Telephone-area | 085 |
| Web | www.amay.be |
| Coordinates | 50°33′N 05°19′E |
Amay (amɛ; wa: 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
References
External links
- The Amay lock in 1921. from the Site of the Walloon regional archives (fr).