What were the observers called in Ancient Sparta?

They were called efhora. Ephor was chosen and given a wide range of powers, only these powers were not clearly regulated. For the first time such positions were introduced by Lycurgus, although Aristotle and Plutarch believed that King Theopompus created them. The election took place every autumn. In fact, it was the prototype of our Duma. The kings needed administrators, and such were the ephors in ancient Greece. But Emperor Hadrian abolished this office in the second century AD.