Maquis or 'macchia' is a type of high ground in Corsica covered in thick vegetation, where privateers used to hide. The name has been adopted by a variety of guerilla movements in francophone countries.
Maquis may also refer to:
Geography
- Maquis shrubland, biome in Mediterranean countries with shrubland similar to North American chaparral.
Guerrillas
- Maquis (World War II), predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance
- Spanish Maquis, guerrillas who resisted the Francisco Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War
- Union of the Peoples of Cameroon members during the fight for Cameroon's independence (1955-1960)
Fiction
- Maquis (Star Trek), anti-Cardassian resistance movement in the fictional Star Trek universe
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