Editing Fortaleza (section)

===Republican period===
[[File:Praça do Ferreira com coreto 1920.PNG|thumb|left|Ferreira Square in 1920]]
[[File:Rua Pedro Borges, Fortaleza, (CE).tif|thumb|Fortaleza in 1935]]
The city gained a number of new districts in the 1930s, including Messejana and Porangaba.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fortaleza: Historia |url=https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/ce/fortaleza/historico |publisher=IBGE |access-date=27 June 2020 |language=pt |archive-date=31 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731201518/https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/ce/fortaleza/historico |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 1954, the first university in the city was created, the [[Universidade Federal do Ceará]] (UFC).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/universidade-federal-do-cear%C3%A1-ufc/undergrad|title=Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)|date=December 13, 2012|access-date=December 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221041333/http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/universidade-federal-do-cear%C3%A1-ufc/undergrad|archive-date=December 21, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1983 the city started to integrate the territory of the new city of [[Maracanaú]], which, just some years ago, was made again part of the Greater Fortaleza (the city's Metropolitan area). In the 1980s, Fortaleza exceeded [[Recife]] in population terms, becoming the second most populous city in [[Northeastern Brazil]], with 2,571,896 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fortaleza.askdefinebeta.com/|title=Define fortaleza - Dictionary and Thesaurus|access-date=December 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422022506/http://fortaleza.askdefinebeta.com/|archive-date=April 22, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>