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Pre-Hasanistani history

Due to the high altitude of the Tian Shan mountain range, Mainland Hasanistan would have likely been historically very sparsely populated. Mainland Hasanistan is located in the wider historical region of Zhetysu, covering south-eastern Kazakhstan, north-eastern Kyrgyzstan and parts of western Xinjiang. There is archaeological evidence for ancient human presence in the Tian Shan between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago.

During the Iron Age and the 1st millennium BCE, the area surrounding modern Hasanistan is believed to had been populated by the Indo-European-Iranic Saka. During the rise of the Xiongnu Empire between the 3rd and 2nd century BCE, the Indo-European Yuezhi and Wusun fled to the Ili valley and displaced the Saka. The region would eventually fall under the control or influence of the Xiongnu, remaining under the control of Xiongnu remnants following the usurpation of power in the Mongol steppe by the Xianbei and later the Rourans.

In the 6th century, the Göktürks defeated the Rourans and began a rapid expansion of their khanagate. The rise of the Göktürks led to the westward migration of the Turkic people from their urheimat, speculated by many Turkologists to be Transbaikalia, into Central Asia and the Turkification of the remaining local Indo-European peoples. Civil war eventually caused the split of the empire into a western and eastern khaganate. The Zhetysu region fell under the control of the Western Göktürks and the Duolu tribal confederation administered the area on behalf of the Western Göktürk khagan. During the mid-7th century, the Chinese Tang dynasty invaded and conquered the Western Göktürk. The Tang established a protectorate over the lands they conquered, with the modern territory of Hasanistan falling under the administration of the "Mengchi Protectorate". Conflict with the Turkic Türgesh, the Tibetan Empire and the Arab caliphates weakened the Tang presence in Central Asia and they were forced to fully withdraw due to the An Lushan rebellion between 755 and 763. Following the Tang withdrawal, Zhetysu was controlled by the Türgesh and later the Karluks under the Karluk Yabghu State for the rest of the 8th century. Other Turkic groups living in the areas of northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan between the 7th and 8th centuries include the Chigils, the Tuhsis and the Yagmas.