Mount Chortiatis played a crucial role for the water supply of Thessaloniki from ancient up until modern times.

1300), the Chortaïtes monastery on the northern slopes of the mountain provided the city and the region east of it with fresh water by an aqueduct whose remains have been partly preserved.

The mythological elements around Mount Kissos (or Chortiatis), in the eastern part of the Thermaic Gulf, and the homonymous settlement, refer to King Kissea of Thrace, who is testified by Homer, but also to the ivy, a plant associated with Dionysus.

Kissea's daughter, Theano, married the Trojan Antinor and became a priestess of Athena in Ilion.

While hiking, Ifidamas arrived in Troy, with twelve ships under his command, and was killed by Agamemnon.