Why is it called the city of brotherly love?

Can you please tell me, William Penn's capital of Pennsylvania, called the city of Brotherly Love was the city of what?

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    It was founded as a Quaker colony by William Penn in 1681 on the site of an earlier Swedish settlement. King Charles II gave William Penn the land because the he owed a substantial sum of money to William Penn's father, who had died.

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It was founded as a Quaker colony by William Penn in 1681 on the site of an earlier Swedish settlement. King Charles II gave William Penn the land because the he owed a substantial sum of money to William Penn's father, who had died. !

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