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Amay Ama (Walloon)
Municipality
Place Sainte-Ode with the Collegiate Church of Saint George and Saint Ode on the right
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)
• Total	14,305
• Density	517.2/km2 (1,339/sq mi)
Postal codes	4540
NIS code	61003
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

See also: List of protected heritage sites in Amay

The Collegiate Church of Saint George and Saint Ode in Amay is traces its origins to a 6th-century sanctuary.

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

Old Romanesque tower (12th century)

Famous inhabitants

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

References

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

External links

• The Amay lock in 1921. from the Site of the Walloon regional archives (fr).
• Media related to Amay at Wikimedia Commons