Amay
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox Belgium municipality Amay ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx) 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 interestEdit
- Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée, a 16th-century castle
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Old Romanesque tower (12th century)
Famous inhabitantsEdit
- François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay
- Zénobe Gramme (1824-1902), inventor of the dynamo
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- The Amay lock in 1921. from the Site of the Walloon regional archives (fr).
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