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A city built in an ancient marshy plain
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The town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue took its current configuration in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 12th centuries. Its first inhabitants would have been fishermen who lived in huts on stilts located in the alluvial and marshy plain of the Sorgues basin to escape the invaders. The toponym Insula (island) appears in documents written as early as the 11th century. The local abbreviated name L'Isle instead of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue comes from it. The full name of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue was officially adopted by municipal decree during the Third Republic in August 1890 and approved by President Sadi Carnot (1887-1894).
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