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Maquis
Maquis may refer to: Resistance groups * Maquis (World War II), predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance * Spanish Maquis, guerrillas who fought against Francoist Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War * The network of rural bases operated by the Communist Party of Kampuchea prior to the Cambodian Civil War Other uses * Maquis (''Star Trek''), fictional resistance movement in the ''Star Trek'' universe ** "The Maquis" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), television episode that introduced the group * Maquis shrubland, a Mediterranean shrubland biome known as ''macchia'' in Italian * '' Aristotelia chilensis'', a bush in southern Chile, locally known as ''maqui'' * Maquis (pigeon), a pigeon that received the Dickin Medal for service during the Second World War See also * * Maki (other) * Maqui (other) * Marquis (other) Marquis (marquess) is a hereditary title of nobility. Marquis may also refer to: People * Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maquis (World War II)
The Maquis () were rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called ''maquisards'', during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. Initially, they were composed of young, mostly working-class, men who had escaped into the mountains and woods to avoid conscription into Vichy France's ''Service du travail obligatoire'' ("Compulsory Work Service" or ''STO'') to provide forced labor for Germany. To avoid capture and deportation to Germany, they became increasingly organized into active resistance groups. They had an estimated to members in autumn of 1943 and approximately members in June 1944. Meaning Originally the word came from the kind of terrain in which the armed resistance groups hid, high ground in southeastern France covered with scrub growth called ''maquis'' (scrubland). from Dictionary.com Although strictly speaking it means thicket, ''maquis'' could be roughly translated as "the bush"; in Corsica, the saying ''prendre le maquis' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
