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The cities of North Africa became, since more thousands years, Muslim cities; certain old cities were abandoned; others were established by dynasties stemming from Muslim conquests. In Algeria, at the beginning of the 19th century, during the French colonization, those who stayed were occupied and transformed for the greater part in their initial structure by applying a new morphological mode superimposed on the existing city (Medina). The degradation of these laminated old centers became more marked with the departure of Europeans who started the phenomenon of the exodus of the medina's inhabitants towards the residences of the freed (released) colonial center, which induced the densification, the insalubrity and the degradation of the physical framework of the laminated part. These historic entities had not aroused any private interest considering the maladjustment of the current laws. The current drama is that these laminated centers risk not to exist anymore. This article will present a methodology adopted for the elaboration of an inventory of the historic cities which existed since the Muslim conquest in the 7th century until the advent of colonization in the 19th century. The inventory will establish knowledge on this category of the good which we qualify as urban heritage; it will become a tool of knowledge in first phase and gratitude of the patrimonial dimension of the historic cities unclassified in the second phase. Also, he will allow to identify those who disappeared and are underestimated and who can be revealed thanks to investigations.