title: Makatu
text: # Makatu
  
  Makatu (Persian: مكتو, also romanized as Makatū) is a village in Charuymaq-e Shomalesharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Hashtrud County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 168, in 41 families.
  
  ## Name
  
  According to Vladimir Minorsky, the name "Makatu" is derived from the Mongolian word meketü, meaning $"sly".^{:77}$
  
  