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'Maquí' is a castellanization of the French maqui, abbreviated form of maquis or maquisards that is a denomination used since the middle of the twentieth century for the guerrillas of resistance, in principle of the French against the German invasion in the Second War, but also of the Spaniards facing Francoism. The name is of Italian origin, where macchia (macha "shrubs, scrub" ) was the forest where the strength of resistance was hid.

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