摘要：Since the Kornati National Park spreads on the islands which were private property of heirs of the people who used to farm the land on Kornati as tenants, and as the interests of the real proprietors were not taken into consideration in the making of physical plans of the area, the authors of this paper dealt with the specific tenant farmers' economy in the National Park protected area. The paper was made by reworking one part of a study made for the pm·pose of modification and amendments of the physical plan of the area. Its main aim was to define the place and the role of the tenant's land in the National Park Kornati protected area as well as the place and the role of the tenants within the system of protecting. Yet, as this problem has never been the subject matter of scientific and professional researches, this paper remains on the plane of identification of the ••gaps« that need to be filled in through future researches. At first, the commune of Zadar, who was the proprietor of Kornati islands, rented them to its wealthy citizens who then sublet them to their tenant farmers, most often the inhabitants of Dugi Otok island. The new tenant farmers, the inhabitants of the island Murter (who are even today owners of almost four fifths of the Kornati area), in search of a new space to live (as their island become overpopulated because of the massive inflow of refugees escaping from the Turks) brought their flocks to Kornati pasture in 1627. Since the second half of the 19th century the former tenants have three times bought the Kornati pasture back, but the inhabitants of Dugi Otok remained the owners of fertile arable fields. The tenants were farm labourers and herdsmen without any production means and completely excluded from fishing. Moreover, their domicile wasn't on any of Kornati islands but on their home island and that caused the so-called over-seas, tenant's model of land property manageme nt, a specific architecture, the way of living during the stay on the estate etc. In the meantime the estate was parcelled out into small plots and as by the proclamation of the National Park the atmosphere of uncertainty for the property arose, the authors give the account of the present situation pleading the proprietors' particular interests to be protected in a way that will not jeopardize the general interest and the narure protection.
关键词：tenant farmer's estate; National Park management; proprietors' interest and the nature protection; Kornati islands
