Maquis

Maquis initially referred to Maquis shrubland, a Mediterranean shrubland biome, and came to be associated with the armed resistance groups which hid in the terrain covered with that scrub growth.

== Resistance groups == Maquis (World War II), predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French and Belgian Resistance Spanish Maquis, guerrillas who fought against Francoist Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War Maquis of Fizi, the site of a Cold War-era rival government in Zaire The network of rural bases operated by the Communist Party of Kampuchea prior to the Cambodian Civil War Maquis (Star Trek), fictional resistance movement in the Star Trek universe "The Maquis" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), television episode that introduced the group