Spanish Maquis

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The Maquis ([ˈmaki(s)]; Basque: Maki; also spelled maqui) were Spanish guerrillas who waged irregular warfare against the Francoist dictatorship within Spain following the Republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War until the early 1960s, carrying out sabotage, robberies, and assassinations of alleged Francoists as well as contributing to the fight against Nazi Germany and the Vichy regime in France during World War II. They also participated in occupations of the Spanish embassy in France. Maquis activity in Spain peaked towards 1946, after which the resistance fighters were heavily repressed during the Trienio del Terror (1947–1949), in which instances of White Terror such as summary execution (paseos) and application of the Ley de Fugas (extralegal executions predicated on detainees' actual or supposed attempts to escape custody) took a heavy toll among maquis combatants and their supporters. Following its decline, maquis activity fully disappeared in the 1960s.

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