A former village, Amby is now a neighborhood (part 25) of

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, in the

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, located about 4 km northeast of the center of the city. From January 2, 1839, to July 1, 1970, Amby existed as a separate

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. In November 2008, an amateur archaeologist discovered in a field 2 meters out of Amby the largest ever found Celtic gold and silver treasure in the Netherlands. Archaeologists from Maastricht and the

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recovered 70 silver and 39 golden coins which dates back to the 1st century before Christ.

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Keltische Muntschat Amby.jpg, Celtic treasure of Amby. 1st BC silver and gold coins, found in the Maastricht neighbourhood of Amby in 2008. Perhaps hidden in the ground by

Eburones The Eburones (Greek: ) were a Gallic- Germanic tribe dwelling in the northeast of Gaul, in what is now the southern Netherlands, eastern Belgium and the German Rhineland, in the period immediately preceding the Roman conquest of the region. Thou ...

fleeing for Roman invaders. Netherlands, Ambij (Amby, Maastricht), map of 1866.jpg, The former municipality of "Ambij" on an 1866 map. Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Neighbourhoods of Maastricht {{LimburgNL-geo-stub