Spanish Maquis

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Spanish Maquis
Part of the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War
Principal areas of Maquis activity within Spain (orange), 1939–1965.
Date 1 April 1939 – March 1965 Location Spain, Pyrenees Result Francoist victory Decline and eventual cessation of Maquis activity
Belligerents
Francoist Spain Supported by:  Nazi Germany (1939–1945) Fascist Italy (1939–1943)  United States (after 1953)	Republican Insurgents Supported by: French Resistance (1940–1944) Italian Resistance (1943–1945) Soviet Union (until 1956)
Commanders and leaders
Francisco Franco Ramón Serrano Suñer Valentín Galarza Morante Camilo Alonso Vega José Enrique Varela Carlos Asensio Cabanillas Fidel Dávila Arrondo Agustín Muñoz Grandes	Antonio Téllez Solà Vicente López Tovar Josep Lluís i Facerias † Eduard Pons Prades, among others
Casualties and losses
~1,000+ killed	5,548 total 2,166 killed 3,382 captured or arrested[1]

The Maquis ([ˈmaki(s)]; Basque: Maki; also spelled maqui)^[2][3] 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 (to help fund guerrilla activity) 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.^[4] They also took part in occupations of the Spanish embassy in France.

Maquis activity in Spain had its heyday towards 1946, after which the resistance fighters were heavily repressed during the Trienio del Terror (1947–1949), which included such instances of White Terror as paseos and applications of the Ley de fugas (extralegal executions predicated on detainees' actual or supposed attempts to escape custody) taking a heavy toll among maquis combatants and their supporters.^[5] Following its decline, it fully disappeared in the 1960s.