Editing Tuff (section)

===Armenia===
Tuff is used extensively in [[Armenia]] and [[Armenian architecture]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Holding|first=N.|title=Armenia: with Nagorno Karabagh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NP8ogKCfrt0C&q=%22volcanic+tuff%22+armenia+building+stone&pg=PA32|access-date=May 26, 2010|year=2006|publisher=[[Bradt Travel Guides]]|isbn=978-1-84162-163-0|page=32}}</ref> It is the dominant type of stone used in construction in Armenia's capital [[Yerevan]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Billock |first1=Jennifer |title=How Ancient Volcanoes Created Armenia's Pink City |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/yerevan-armenias-pink-city-180961506/ |work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609113744/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/yerevan-armenias-pink-city-180961506/ |archive-date=9 June 2020 |quote=...pink tuff is rare outside of the region and Yerevan is the only major city built out of this stone.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lottman |first1=Herbert R. |author-link1=Herbert Lottman |title=Despite Ages of Captivity, The Armenians Persevere |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/29/archives/despite-ages-of-captivity-the-armenians-persevere-armenia-a-hint-of.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 February 1976 |quote=The city, whose population is now upwards of 800,000, has been rebuilt in the rosy volcanic stone called tufa...}}</ref> [[Gyumri]], Armenia's second largest city, and [[Ani]], the country's medieval capital, now in Turkey.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haviland |first1=William A |last2=Harald |first2=E. L. Prins |last3=Dana |first3=Walrath |last4=McBride |first4=Bunny |title=The Essence of Anthropology |date=2015 |publisher=[[Cengage Learning]] |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Th-BAAAQBAJ&dq=ani+tuff+stone&pg=PA137 137] |edition=4th |quote=...walls of monumental buildings at Ani (including the fortifications) were built of smoothly dressed blocks of tuff stone...}}</ref> A small village in Armenia was renamed [[Tufashen]] (literally "built of tuff") in 1946.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hakobian |first1=T. Kh. |last2=Melik-Bakhshian |first2=St. T. |last3=Barseghian |first3=H. Kh. |author-link1=Tadevos Hakobyan |author-link2=:hy:Ստեփան Մելիք-Բախշյան |author-link3=:hy:Հովհաննես Բարսեղյան |title=Հայաստանի և հարակից շրջանների տեղանունների բառարան [Dictionary of Toponyms of Armenia and Surrounding Regions] Volume V |date=2001 |publisher=Yerevan University Press |page=[http://www.nayiri.com/imagedDictionaryBrowser.jsp?dictionaryId=61&dt=HY_HY&query=%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%86%D5%A1%D5%B7%D5%A5%D5%B6 147] |language=hy |chapter=Տուֆաշեն [Tufashen] }}</ref>

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File:Yerevan-Republic_Square-12-Government-2019-gje.jpg|Armenia's [[Government_House,_Yerevan|Government House]] in Yerevan's [[Republic Square, Yerevan|Republic Square]], built of yellow tuff 
File:Holy_Saviour%27s_Church,_Gyumri.jpg|[[Holy Saviour's Church, Gyumri|Holy Saviour's Church]] in Gyumri, built mainly of black tuff 
File:Ani-Cathedral, Ruine.jpeg|[[Cathedral of Ani]], early 11th century, in the medieval Armenian capital of [[Ani]] (modern-day Turkey) was built in tuff<ref>{{cite book|last=Hakobyan|first=Tadevos Kh.|author-link=Tadevos Hakobyan|title=Անի մայրաքաղաք [Ani the Capital]|date=1988|publisher=[[Yerevan State University|Yerevan University Press]]|location=Yerevan|page=118|language=hy}}</ref>
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