Chapter I:
In Africa (Carthaginian centers in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Libya)

Proceeding West, along the coast of North Africa, are listed the Punic centers. "Sic transit gloria mundi": many centers today are just archeological sites that related to places of the dead. Many centers however still exist and represent the urban skeleton of North Africa: Sousse, Tabarca, Bizerte, Jerba, Annaba, Constantine, Skikda, Melilla (Sp.), Essaouira, Rabat, Tripoli, etc. About Tipasa, Camus wrote: "elle me donne l'orgueil de ma condition d'homme".

Chapter II:
In West (Crete, Cyprus, Spain, Sardinia, Sicily, and Malta)

There is a short list of the various Phoenician and Carthaginian settlements, of the finds discovered and of the function that they had in the economic life of Punic people.