KARTVELIAN TOPONYMS IN ALBANIA

Lazarat is a small town in Albania, which always provoked a desire to connect it to Lazareti. The etymology of the word is interesting:

lazaretto [ˌlæzəˈrɛtəʊ], lazaret, lazarette [ˌlæzəˈrɛt]
n pl -rettos, -rets, -rettes
...
2. (Historical Terms) Also called lazar house pesthouse (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lazarettos

And now let's go to the Greek dictionary that says:

λούβα - leprosy

From one hand, leprosy = laz, from another hand, leprosy = lub. You don't have to be mathematician to figure out from these equations that laz = lub (which is a known fact). So, Lazarat indeed relates to Laz people (-ar suffix meaning 'place of' in Svan).

Another Albanian city with Kartvelian (Laz) suffix is Berat. In Laz Berati = 'place of beri', while beri in Kartvelian means old. So, Berat = 'place of the old'.

And finally, the city of Zall-Bastar makes us go to the etymology of mysterious tribe of Bastarnae (Bastarni), which look like Old Kartvelian plural (n-suffix) of the word Bastar (Svan ar-suffix meaning 'place of basti'). Compare 'basti' to Spanish-Iberian tribes of Bastuli and Bastetani which we already talked about. Besides, there is a Spanish surname Sabastaro, containing the Kartvelian Sa- prefix in combination with the root in question:

http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2015/Rochester%20NY%20Daily%20Record/Rochester%20NY%20Daily%20Record%201959/Rochester%20NY%20Daily%20Record%201959%20-%200383.pdf

...while a person who had Sabastaro as the name, once emigrated to Argentina:

http://comunidad.dateas.com/indice-inmigrantes?page=6607

So, don't look for 'bastarnae' anymore. Look for 'bastars' or, better, 'basts'.