Amay
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Amayé may refer to the following places in Calvados, France: *Amayé-sur-Orne *Amayé-sur-Seulles
Amay ( ; ) 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 km 2 which gives a population density of approximately 476 inhabitants1 per km 2 . 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
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
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).
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