- Amay
Infobox Belgium Municipality
name=Amay
picture=Amay JPG01B.jpg
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region=BE-REG-WAL
community=BE-FR
province=BE-PROV-LG
arrondissement=Huy
nis=61003
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0-19=
20-64
65
foreigners=
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mayor=Jean-Michel Javaux (Ecolo)
majority=Ecolo , MR
postal-codes=4540
telephone-area=085
web= [http://www.amay.be/ www.amay.be]
lat_deg=50
lat_min=33
lon_deg=05
lon_min=19Amay is a Belgian
municipality located in the Walloon province of Liège. OnJanuary 1 ,2006 , Amay had a total population of 13,144. The total area is 27.61 km² which gives apopulation density of approximately 476 inhabitants per km². It owes its site to a ford of theMeuse that was still in use in the Middle Ages but had begun as aGallo-Roman "vicus " of the "civitas Tungrorum" (Tongeren ).Famous inhabitants
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François Walther de Sluze (1622-1685), mathematician and abbot of AmayPlaces of interest
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Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée , a 16th century castleOther meanings
Amay is a word from Sanskrit. "may" comes from maya or illusion. "A" is a prefix of negation. A famous Indian cricketer given this name is
Amay Khurasiya .References
* [http://icarus.umkc.edu/sandbox/perseus/pecs/page.233.a.php Richard Stillwell, ed. "Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites", 1976:] "Amay, Belgium"
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