The fire broke out in maquis shrubland in north of Candarli neighborhood on Sunday. Five helicopters, 17 water tenders battled against the flames which spread due to windy conditions, told Dikili ...

But, thanks to its ubiquitous maquis undergrowth (for some reason it was this agreeably scented shrubland which gave its name to the Second World War French resistance), you know you’re in ...

It’s like France in microcosm.” The maquis, or shrubland, that Nicolas talks about blankets almost half the island and is covered in the wild herbs and aromatic flowers that flavour much of ...

Using tactics remembered from the wartime Maquis days, farmers immobilized some dozen towns for as long as 12 hours. They felled countless telephone poles, hauled carts across the railway tracks ...