Alatala was a winter pasture located in the territory of the Gazakh uezd of the former Yelizavetpol (Ganja) governorate, later in the former Shamshaddin (Berd) district, and currently in the Tavush province. It was dissolved in 1960.

The toponym was coined from the word “ala” used in the sense of “patchy, colorful” in Turkic and the word “tala” used in the sense of “a woodless, bare ground in the forest, field” in Azerbaijani.