Ashaghi Giratagh is a village in the Zangezur uezd of the Yelizavetpol governorate, later in the former Gafan district, and currently in the Syunik province. It lies 4 km to the southwest of the village of Yukhari Giratagh, on the left bank of the Okhchu River, at a height of 1,440 m above sea level. Following the establishment of the Zangezur uezd in Soviet Armenia on 31 August 1921, the settlement was integrated into the administrative area of Armenia. It was marked as Kiratag on the five-verst map of the Caucasus.

Historically, there was a village named “Giratagh” in the Zangezur uyezd. Later a group of inhabitants of the village moved from Giratagh to build a new village in its vicinity, and the newly-built village was called “Ashaghi Giratagh” and the village of Giratagh itself “Yukhari Giratagh”. There lived 87 Azerbaijanis in Ashaghi Giratagh in 1897. In 1918 the inhabitants of the village were deported having been exposed to Armenian massacre. The inhabitants of the village managed to return to their native land following the establishment of Soviet power in the present-day Armenian territory. The village was inhabited only by 82 Azerbaijanis in 1922, 87 in 1926, 127 in 1931, 139 in 1939, 167 in 1959 and 143 Azerbaijanis in 1979. In November 1988 the Azerbaijanis were completely deported from their historical- ethnic land by the state of Armenia. At present, Armenians live there.

The toponym was coined by combining the word “kir” used in Turkic in the sense of “a mountain range”, “a field, mountain, high place, hill”, “an upper land” and the word “dagh” (tagh). The word “ashaghi” preceding the toponym denotes a distinguishing feature.

The name of the village is written as “Nerkin Giratagh” in official documents. According to the law “On the administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Armenia” dated 7 November 1995, it was integrated into the administrative area of the Syunik province.

Geographic coordinates: latitude: 39°13’ N., longitude: 46°16’ E.