Amay
Encyclopedia
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).
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
located in the Walloon province of Liège
Liège (province)
Liège is the easternmost province of Belgium and belongs to the Walloon Region. It is an area of French and German ethnicity. It borders on the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant , and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg . Its...
. On January 1, 2006, Amay had a total population of 13,144. The total area is 27.61 km² which gives a population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...
of approximately 476 inhabitants per km². It owes its site to a ford of the Meuse
Meuse
Meuse is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse.-History:Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
that was still in use in the Middle Ages but had begun as a Gallo-Roman vicus
Vicus (Rome)
In ancient Rome, the vicus was a neighborhood. During the Republican era, the four regiones of the city of Rome were subdivided into vici. In the 1st century BC, Augustus reorganized the city for administrative purposes into 14 regions, comprising 265 vici. Each vicus had its own board of...
of the civitas Tungrorum (Tongeren).
Famous inhabitants
- François Walther de SluzeFrançois Walther de SluzeRené-François Walter de Sluse , canon of Liège and abbot of Amay was a Walloon mathematician.-Biography:...
(1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay - Armand Rocour (1932-1988), filmmaker