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

Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; ; ; ) is a city and a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital city, capital and largest city of the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg. Maastricht is loca ...

, 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

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

. As of 2017, it had a total population of 6,565. In November 2008, an amateur archaeologist discovered in a field 2 meters out of Amby the largest ever found

Celt The Celts ( , see Names of the Celts#Pronunciation, pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples ( ) were a collection of Indo-European languages, Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the apoge ...

ic gold and silver treasure in the Netherlands. Archaeologists from Maastricht and the VU University Amsterdam recovered 70 silver and 39 golden coins which dates back to the 1st century before Christ.

Images

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 Gaulish- Germanic tribe dwelling in the northeast of Gaul, who lived north of the Ardennes in the region near what is now the southern Netherlands, eastern Belgium and the German Rhineland, in the period immediately ...

fleeing for Roman invaders. Netherlands, Ambij (Amby, Maastricht), map of 1866.jpg, The former municipality of "Ambij" on an 1866 map.

References

Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Neighbourhoods of Maastricht {{LimburgNL-geo-stub