Origin of the place name:

There are two versions of origin of the place name "Katihori" or "Katochori"-the double name is very old, from the Ottoman era:
"Katihori" is the village of Kati. Indeed, it 1842, the katichorites succeeded in transferring katiliki (County court) in their village. Thus the village became the seat of the Turkish judge, of Kati, from which it took its name.

"Katihori", called the Lower Mahal Portaria, who subsequently became independent.
Although the first version is more attractive for the villagers, prevalent be considered the second, since the formula "Katihori" occurs well before the mid-19th century, to Dimitrieis, το 1791, and in "Partial Geography" Argyris Filippidi, το 1815.it

Brief Chronology:

The medieval name of the village is Lower Dryanoybaina. When John Kordatou, must have belonged to the Byzantine government or someone lord, relative of the Emperor. Later became Turkish manor. At the beginning of Ottoman rule was considered the Lower Mahal Portaria, But over time divided and formed a separate community. It 1615 had 182 families and 17 homes. He also had a Turkish mosque. Argyris says Filippídis, in the early 19th century, the existence of many monasteries in the area. Later, Dorotheos Scholarius writes, for the period 1860-1870, that the village has 1000 residents and big houses ,while Rimatisidis, on the 1870, finds katichorites "polypragmonas and selfish".
It 1883, the Katihori and Portaria constituting the municipality Orminiou str. Four years later, it 1887, the Katihori operated two schools, male and female, with 92 schoolchildren.
There were also here galiagries, mills that, one of which survives today, is elementary and presents to students and visitors the traditional olive oil production. There were still artisans who worked copper, silver and gold. The residents of KATICHORI dealt with sericulture, crafts silk and leather.
In the early years of the 20th century, crops of apple coriander, trees and vineyards are the main occupations of the villagers. In the interwar, electrification increases the production of craft workshops. Then electrified and a mill, of Chatzigianni, while Simos remains ydrokinoumeno.
Possession in the Katihori bombed twice. Το 1943 the Germans killed in cold blood 13 villagers. Το 1944 conquerors burned Katihori, together withIttaria.
It 1955, the great earthquake, the Katihori had losses of tens of buildings. He's had a dead- the unique Pelion.
The construction of roads Pelion, while other villages have been blessing, for Katihori was the destruction. Demoted from center passing caravan route to Volos or returning to their villages, leaving money in place, reached a small rural hamlet.
Something of its former glory regained the combination of "Kapodistrias" the 1998. As a district of the municipality Portaria, longer infrastructures which enable a growth in tourism- field hitherto unknown village.