Amay

Geschiedenis

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).The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Amay proper, Ampsin, Flône, Jehay, and Ombret.Places of interest Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée, a 16th-century castleFamous inhabitants François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay Zénobe Gramme (1824-1902), inventor of the dynamo