Klein's Erlanger Program

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What does "Erlangen" mean in "Klein's Erlanger Program" or "the Erlangen Program". According to Translate.com, "Erlangen" means "gain," but "the Gain Program" does not seem like a reasonable name of it.

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Erlangen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlangen) is a town in southern Germany. Klein held a chair at the local university (now "Erlangen-Nürnberg") and published the Erlanger Program on the occasion of obtaining this chair.

(Concerning the meaning as a proper word, and the fact that the university used to be prominent in theology, there is a silly pun "Suchet das Reich Gottes zu erlangen", which may mean "Seek to reach the Kingdom of God" or: "Go to the Kingdom of God that will be found in [the Town] Erlangen" that hinges on the fact that spoken language does not distinguish upper or lower case in Erlangen/erlangen. Also the emphasis in "Erlangen" is at the first syllable while in "erlangen" it is on the second.)